Shawbak multi-touch tabletop
A technology transfer project realized for the international exhibition From Petra to Shawbak: archeology of a frontier. A multi-touch tabletop was realized for this exhibition that presents the results of the latest international archeology investigations and of the research conducted by the archaeological mission of the University of Florence in these past twenty years in Jordan at the sites of Petra and Shawbak, one of the most important historical areas in the world. Developed by Nicola Torpei, Nicola Martorana, Riccardo Canalicchio (interaction design, hardware and software...
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An interactive floor realized for Studio Quagli during Pitti Immagine Uomo (Winter / 2009). Camera based body tracking and digital contents developed in Open Frameworks. ...
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A multi-touch tableTop for natural access to digital contents of Palazzo Medici Riccardi’s physical bookshop During the last year we have worked on different solutions for developing new natural interaction frameworks that exploit a minimal set of natural object-related operations (eg zoom-in for 2D images, zoom and rotate for 3D objects, open and turn page for books, unroll for foulards and so on). The Interactive Bookshop was recently prototyped and installed in the bookshop of Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence to display artistic objects as digital replicas.
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Multi-touch wall developed at Media Integration and Communication Center, University of Florence, Italy A large vertical retro-projection with camera based sensing of multiple hands.
Read MoreMont’Alfonso Interactive Environment
The Mont’Alfonso Fortress was built at the end of the 16th century and after being abandoned for decades it was recently submitted to a complete restoration. A multimedia environment, made of large projections, was developed in one of the buildings inside the fortress. Users can interact with natural body gestures: the multimedia contents of two tables are driven by user’s hands, while projections on walls and floor are activated by motion detection. All the sensing is made using near-IR cameras. The natural interactive environment installed at the Mont’Alfonso Fortress is...
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