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Human - Machine (Computer) Interfaces
We like to feature here some alternative human/machine interface approaches:
The human/machine interface is still slowly developing, since the mouse and table got attached, and some ergonomic keyboards are easy to purchase something happened, but there is still much more to do.
Sony: Glasstron - 800x200 pixels - projects 52" screen aprx. 6.5 feets away. Some people reviewed the project and said that the picture was appearing farther away actually.
Hitachi: Wearable Internet Appliance To be launched Q4 2001, headset, ~$2000 Review: Head Mounted Displays highly recommend, lots of links Inviso: eShades 800x600 color I-Glasses.Com 140K - 240K pixels (up to 640x375) VirtualVision: eGlass Another lightweight head-display (800x600 'one eye') Glasstron Audio/Video Glasses 800x220
TwoMobile.com News site and resources MobileLinux.com News site and resources WearablesCentral Good overview of wearable headsets (seems no longer active) WearableGear.Com Wearable computing approaches (no longer maintained) PDA Lab Our own section
Wearable Keyboards
Half Keyboard.Com Half-size keyboard
C-Pen 800, IR transmission
Electronic Pens allow to scan printed texts and recognize hand-written text with the pen itself.
In case of AnotoTM special paper will be used which enables the pen to write with ink and recognize the exact coordinate including which page/sheet of a possible booklet it writes on. This is possible by special patterned paper which the Atono-pen will recognize its own coordinate.
Anoto.com Most promising pen, allows to write with ink with built-in OCR & handwriting recognition (available Summer 2001) Cpen.com Various pens (C-pen 200/600/800) which does OCR and handwriting recognition with gesture (no ink), available since May 1999, $150-$400
Touchscreens merge keyboard, mouse and screen together, quite an achievement but not necessarly the end of the development.
ELO Touch.Com Touchscreen developer MicroTouch.Com Touchscreen developer TouchScreens.Com Another one
Eye tracking as replacement of mouse or tablet seems attractive:
Eye Control.Com $100 eye-tracking device
PanoramTech.Com - PV290 DSK: 43.5"x11.5" (44" diagonal), 3x 1280x1024 = 3840x1024 total
Combining multiple videoprojectors allow to display big panels and walls, certainly still very expensive undertake (Sep 2000).
PanoramTech.Com More infos ... MassMultipless.Com Combining multiple LCD 2x, 3x, 4x. MultiHead Resource to run multiple monitors
BiomorphDesk.Com Nice desks, good prices Workspaces.Com Another site Metaphorphosis.Com Wooden furniture Yahoo: Ergonomic Furniture Resource list Outstanding examples:
BiomorphDesk.com WorkEnv.Com
"Multifunctional Desk" we call as a merge of
into one consistent environment.
- Screen
- Keyboard
- Mouse
- Scanner
Video Camera The camera scans physical placed objects, e.g. zooms to a to-be scanned document on the desk. After the scan is done the document appears virtual on the same space.
Board The board is milky transparent and operates as screen and touch-sensitive board. The keyboard is either build it (static) or virtually displayed. One problem to be investigasted is, if typing on a flat board is ergonomical, if not, a build-in keyboard is required. The former mouse will be a pointing finger, recognized by the camera when it's not toching the board, and from the board when the finger is touching the screen.
Projector The projector displays the screen from below to the desk. A high resolution of 100dpi is recommended, the entire board 50"x30".
Products
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