Be careful when copying information from this article! The paper is already published and you will be charged with plagiarism! My thesis proposes several approaches as result of the research questions. Their validity of each approach should be verified by allowing users to interact with a prototype built to fulfill all the proposed solutions. Hence, the final users will prove the correctness of this thesis approaches. The implemented prototype will be a brainstorming supporting application. Because my thesis studies brainstorming on a tabletop, I will choose the Microsoft Surface as the underlying hardware because it supports multitouch and multiuser experience. […]
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Today I had the pleasure to make the first step in Microsoft Student Partners organization (West Germany branch). So I applied by sending to Microsoft Student Partners enrollment e-mail address a cover letter, my cv and a short description. After a while, I got a call from Anton Schweizer, Senior Student Partner, and I was invited to an interview.
I am very close to finish another project in Fraunhofer FIT: IdeaPitch on the Microsoft Surface. This concept is very simple, you are able to “store” ideas in a repository, created using PHP and MySQL, and later on manipulate it on Microsoft Surface, along with the rest of the contributors. Other clients, iPhone and Air, were developed and are able to connect to the repository and register the ideas there. They are acting like individual clients, the iPhone can’t be used comfortable by more than one person. Not to mention that this is kind of personal device by its nature. The Surface […]
In order to understand the need of changing the screen orientation on a Microsoft Surface, you might want to think aboutthe situation in which you have casual visitors, who sit in pairs working on one Surface, you might considering rotating the window such that the ’Down’ of the application would be the nearest edge to them.
For sure at some point in your Microsoft Surface application you'll need to do programatically some screenshots. This article explains how to do it in two simple steps.
Just a reminder for posterity : posting with .Net its so easy! Check out the Cocoa touch framework to realize the difference!
After starting the task, I started to be very curios about the technology that drives this device.I started looking over the internet and I found this picture. Very interesting, isn’t it? Basically contains a normal computer, linked to a projector and few infrared cameras. 1) Screen, the visual part of the device – Contains a special diffuser which turns the Surface’s acrylic tabletop into a big horizontal “multitouch” screen, capable of acquiring and processing multiple inputs from multiple users in the same time. The Surface is far more advanced than simple multitouch devices, being capable to be aware of […]
New day, new task, new challenges – Today I started working on a social collaborative tool which will work on Surface, but extended eventually to Flex 3, Silverlight and iPhone. First impression: Visual Studio is an old friend. Still, bad news: Surface SDK is kept locked in a website, having access only those who bought a license. Shame, Microsoft! After installing the SDK I started running the examples, I noticed that many events are new, a lot of new interaction techniques appeared ( the device can track up to 50 different fingers) and also the trackers who can be identified […]
Starting today, I work as a Student Helper in Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology. The branch from Sankt Augustin, which I joined, is focused on the research of human-centered computing in a process context. I will activate in the Cooperation and Community Support department, which deals with the research and development of community portals, (mobile) communities and cooperation, Internet-based groupware, cooperative knowledge management, application service providing for cooperative work and virtual teams, rating and recommender systems and cooperative learning environments. The head of the department is Prof. Wolfgang Prinz, PhD and I will work closely with Mr. Nils Jeners, […]
Mr. Scott Hanselman explained the usage of Microsoft’s .Net 4.0 framework in real life examples, creating an interesting environment for very young people (less than 4 years) using Silverlight, PDAs, the new Surface device, webservices, real time interrogation to data bases by auto updating reports and others.