June 18, 2008

Gesture, Movement and the Body Control New Interfaces

Today's post is an update to my video background page, "Movement Is at the Heart of Scientific and Technological Change." Below, you'll find eight videos that demonstrate how gesture, movement and the body are being coupled with new technologies and interfaces for manipulating, viewing and controlling art and objects:

Using Your Body to Manipulate an Art Installation

Light Rain from wowlab is an art installation that users manipulate with their hands and body - text in Japanese, but you'll find pictures and a video clip:

Use Wii Balance Board to Control Google Earth

Researchers from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence show how to control Google Earth and computer games with Wii Balance board [via Gizmodo and technabob]:

And watch this earlier clip from the creators of the above video to see how they set-up the Wii balance board to control these applications.

Manipulating Computer Animations with Your Feet

LM3Labs developed Catchyoo Sprites, which allows users to manipulate animations on large-screen display with their feet and hands:

Gestures Control Toshiba Notebook

Hand gestures, without physical contact with a computer, can be used to control
Toshiba Qosmio G55 notebook [via Laptop, Trend Hunter and Fresh Creation]:

FlicFlex

The Flicflex concept is based on a bendable, flexible computer interface created by Chris Woebken [via Fresh Creation]:

Take A Seat

Jelte van Geest, a student at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands, created these movable, robotic chairs with embedded RFID chips that follow the owner around in preparation for the next seating -- one or more chairs can be controlled simultaneously [via momeld, technabob and Grinding] :

TelePresence in Action

Here's an example of telepresence: a business meeting with John Chambers, CEO of Cisco:

Monkey Uses Brain Waves to Eat

Video and news story from NewScientist shows how Monkey's brainwaves are used to activate fake arm that feeds monkey:

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