{"id":79,"date":"2010-02-09T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mishmashmakers.com\/michelle\/?p=79"},"modified":"2016-05-24T18:30:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T18:30:47","slug":"multi-touch-tar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mishmashmakers.com\/michelle\/2010\/02\/multi-touch-tar\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-Touch TAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After I finished my MSc degree in January, I spent the next few months working on a number of projects in the AMMI lab. One of the most fruitful projects was the design and development of the AIR Touch multi-touch system. Working with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.ualberta.ca\/~frasera\">Fraser Anderson<\/a> and a team of researchers and occupational therapists at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalhealth.ca\/hospitalsandhealthfacilities\/hospitals\/glenroserehabilitationhospital\/default.htm\">Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital<\/a>, the AIR Touch system is comprised of a 3 foot by 2 foot multi-touch surface (manufactured by <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.nortd.com\/touchkit\/\">NOR_\/D<\/a>), a FireFly MV IR camera, an off-the-shelf NEC projector, a mirror, the openFrameworks software package, and a suite of rehabilitation-inspired multi touch activities written in Adobe Flex. The lovely black 2\u00d74 stand was created by Fraser and I in my garage (thanks Dad for the supplies!).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Version One of the system:<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xu0bphtclhE\/S3Ck_v2dBjI\/AAAAAAAAAMY\/i0Q3O8Vz6fY\/s1600-h\/DSC05784.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xu0bphtclhE\/S3Ck_v2dBjI\/AAAAAAAAAMY\/i0Q3O8Vz6fY\/s200\/DSC05784.JPG?resize=200%2C150\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xu0bphtclhE\/S3CkUF5r4TI\/AAAAAAAAAMA\/QO0QzqWxD-8\/s1600-h\/DSC01654.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xu0bphtclhE\/S3CkUF5r4TI\/AAAAAAAAAMA\/QO0QzqWxD-8\/s200\/DSC01654.JPG?resize=200%2C150\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">IR Camera Image (Top), Tracking Image (Bottom):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xu0bphtclhE\/S3Ckcup9K4I\/AAAAAAAAAMI\/5Ry4-a1FTsM\/s1600-h\/fingers.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xu0bphtclhE\/S3Ckcup9K4I\/AAAAAAAAAMI\/5Ry4-a1FTsM\/s200\/fingers.png?resize=200%2C167\" width=\"200\" height=\"167\" border=\"0\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xu0bphtclhE\/S3CkeT4D8mI\/AAAAAAAAAMQ\/pJyuuAYXRcU\/s1600-h\/tracked%2Bfingers.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Xu0bphtclhE\/S3CkeT4D8mI\/AAAAAAAAAMQ\/pJyuuAYXRcU\/s200\/tracked%2Bfingers.png?resize=200%2C168\" width=\"200\" height=\"168\" border=\"0\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We chose to use a very open solution, as opposed to the Microsoft Surface or a SMART table, so we could modify or add things to the hardware setup as needed. We are currently in the process of designing version two of the hardware and I will post pictures when we are done!<span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;\"><br>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After I finished my MSc degree in January, I spent the next few months working on a number of projects in the AMMI lab. One of the most fruitful projects was the design and development of the AIR Touch multi-touch system. 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