Human-computer interaction
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Sensing Techniques for Tablet+Stylus Interaction
We explore grip and motion sensing to afford new techniques that leverage how users naturally manipulate tablet and stylus devices during pen + touch interaction. We can detect whether the user holds the pen in…
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3D-Board: A Whole-body Remote Collaborative Whiteboard
Introducing 3D-Board, a digital whiteboard capable of capturing life-sized virtual embodiments of geographically distributed users. When using large-scale screens for remote collaboration, awareness for the distributed users’ gestures and actions is of particular importance. Our…
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Sensing Techniques for Tablet+Stylus Interaction
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FlexSense: A Transparent Self-Sensing Deformable Surface
We present FlexSense, a new thin-film, transparent sensing surface based on printed piezoelectric sensors, which can reconstruct complex deformations without the need for any external sensing, such as cameras. Done in collaboration with Media Interaction…
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Sensing Techniques for Tablet+Stylus Interaction (short)
We explore grip and motion sensing to afford new techniques that leverage how users naturally manipulate tablet and stylus devices during pen + touch interaction. We can detect whether the user holds the pen in…
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On RoomAlive and Augmented Reality
In an excerpt from his Microsoft Research Luminaries interview, Senior Researcher Hrvoje Benko discusses the goals of Project RoomAlive and his vision of augmented reality.
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RichReview: Blending Ink, Speech, and Gesture to Support Collaborative Document Review
This paper introduces a novel document annotation system that aims to enable the kinds of rich communication that usually only occur in face-to-face meetings. Our system, RichReview, lets users create annotations on top of digital…
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Hrvoje Benko on what inspires him
In an excerpt from his Microsoft Research Luminaries interview, Senior Researcher Hrvoje Benko discusses his inspiration.
