TouchSmarter: Touch Screen Gadgets

One of NUI’s educational partners, K3 School of Arts and Communication at Malmö University (Sweden) demonstrated NUI Suite Snowflake on their own multi-touch table, called Rosie, that 1scale1 developed as part of their thesis work.

1scale1 is a Critical Research Studio looking into the development of interactive media solution within K3.

As education is one of the vertical focuses of NUI, we were of course delighted with the robust and stable performance of Snowflake, despite many children interacting with the system at the same time. Furthermore we are of course glad that our software is so engaging to children to play with.

Thanks to 1scale1 and K3 for the pictures.

Previously NUI, K3 and 1scale1 organized a multi-touch workshop. For more details check the 1scale1 website.

Several months ago I was invited by Interactive Displays Conference to speak at that event on behalf of NUI Group, as one of the founders of that open source non profit community. Unfortunately I at that moment in time I was not sure if I was able to attend so I declined sadly. I forwarded IDC’s request to one of the other forum members with the result that NUI Group will have a stand at the event to exhibit.

However it seems now like I will be able to personally attend as a visitor anyway, to represent the commercial entity of the NUI company.

If you are not able to attend the conference, but would like to schedule a meeting to discuss commercial opportunities with NUI, within the multi-touch industry, please let me know at hv at natural-ui dot com
I’ll be in San Jose from 18-23 of April.

Best,

Harry

Below a summary of the Natural User Interface Twitter update 22-28 March

You can find NUI’s Twitter at www.twitter.com/multitouch where you can keep track of operational updates from NUI related to multitouch technology

NUI partners with a new strong Asian partner, LUMIN Vision Korea

Purchased a new air hockey table and fussbal table to welcome the new interns that will start upcoming week

Finalized the new NUI Suite Snowflake brochure, now available

Working on a project for an airport

Inquired about additional office space for expansion

US Students with autism spectrum disorder enjoy using NUI Suite Snowflake on HP TouchSmart PC with NextWindow tech http://tinyurl.com/cp4jcu

NUI is rapidly expanding and therefore looking for an additional Sales/Project Manager, see job offer for a position at the NUI Headquarters in Skelleftea, Sweden

Natural User Interface is rapidly expanding and we are therefore looking for a Sales/Project Manager to work with our headquarters in Sweden.

Requirements:
* Passionate
* Dedicated
* Team player
* Fluent in English

NUI offers:
* Challenges
* Flexibility
* Dedicated office space
* Benefits / incentives

If you are interested to change the world, send your letter of motivation and CV to mail [at] natural-ui [dot] com

Below a summary of the Natural User Interface Twitter update 14-22 March

You can find NUI’s Twitter at www.twitter.com/multitouch where you can keep track of operational updates from NUI.

Started the Multitouch group on Linkedin which is a Global group for multitouch technology industry professionals to network

Uploaded a video of NUI Suite Snowflake running on a HP TouchSmart with NextWindow technology see below

DB Systems NUI OEM partnership press release online http://tinyurl.com/cmjy8m

NUI now offers the educational sector attractive discounts for Snowflake and the Horizon, inquires can be sent to mail[at]natural-ui.com

# Posted photos of NUI Suite Snowflake running on the HP TouchSmart with NextWindow technology, on my blog (see below)

Last week we were delighted to see the enthusiasm of Swedish TV celebrity Fredrik Wikingsson, in our office, while demonstration multi-touch

NUI invited to showcase at From Business to Buttons (the Interaction Design) event http://www.businesstobuttons.com/exhibitors

Press release NUI NextWindow partnership online http://tinyurl.com/d4r5qv

Added a new page to the NUI website for the NUI Suite Snowflake plug-in for NextWindow http://tinyurl.com/bhnnvy

We developed the NUI Suite Snowflake plug-in for NextWindow’s hardware platform, supporting amongst others the HP TouchSmart IQ500, IQ770, IQ800 series and Dell Studio One 19 PC .

More information can be found here: http://www.natural-ui.com/solutions/software_nw.html

Read the press release on the NUI NextWindow partnership here: http://www.natural-ui.com/aboutnui/news2009.html

NUI and NextWindow combined technology allows for natural and intuitive interaction of digital content, creating an engaging user experience. These combined solutions can be utilized in public spaces, education, military, real estate, museums, exhibition/events, retail stores, interactive advertisement and digital signage and more. Also, this enables the end users to have much thinner multi-touch solution, compared to camera based solutions.

Natural User Interface (NUI) now offers NUI Suite Snowflake for thin LCD, Plasma and TFT solutions.

NUI recently partnered up with NextWindowâ„¢, an international leader in the development of optical multi-touch technology and the manufacturer of optical multi-touch screens, overlays and OEM touch components.

The partnership allowed NUI to develop the NUI Suite Snowflake plug-in for NextWindowâ„¢’s technology, supporting their innovative and cost effective touch solutions ranging from 15 - 120″ diagonal.

NextWindow’s technology can be used as an overlay on top of flat TFT, LCD and Plasma solutions, however the technology is also integrated in mainstream products like the HP TouchSmart IQ500, IQ770, IQ800 series and Dell Studio One 19 PC.

You can find the full press release on the NUI website:
http://www.natural-ui.com/aboutnui/news_details/march16-2009.html

The NUI NextWindowâ„¢ plug-in allows for third party multi-touch software application developers to run their software on the NextWindow platform, supporting any programming language that utilizes TUIO, i.e. C/C++/C#, Java, Flash, Python, Flex, Air, VVVV etcetera. The plug-in comes with pre-installed applications such as PDF viewer, Special effects, Media Viewer, Draw application, 3D model viewer and many more.

Anthony Uhrick, NextWindows VP of Sales mentions: “NextWindow is pleased with the fact that Natural User Interface chose to enable NUI Suite Snowflake to operate on the NextWindow platform. NUI is a pioneering company and brand within the multi-touch technology industry and their efforts to integrate their software solutions on our platform, is a sign that they recognize the importance of our combined solutions. NUI adds value to our platform by delivering a good software solution that allows people to utilize our platform to a further extent.”

More details on the NUI Suite Snowflake plug-in for NextWindow on the NUI website: http://www.natural-ui.com/solutions/software_nw.html

Below a summary of the Natural User Interface Twitter update 1-14 March

You can find NUI’s Twitter at www.twitter.com/multitouch where you can keep track of operational updates from NUI.

Natural User Interface partners up with NextWindow, an international leader in the development of optical multi-touch technology

Uploaded:IEEE Tabletops and Interactive Surfaces ‘08 whitepaper NUI wrote http://tinyurl.com/d44to8

NUI Suite Snowflake running successfully on Windows 7 on N-Trigs platform, which is supported by Latitude XT & XT2 and the HP Touchsmart TX2

NUI Suite Snowflake again successfully utilized for a multi-touch exhibit in USA by Ideum

Updated the front page of www.natural-ui.com and finished a photo shoot for a brochure for an interaction design event in the Summer

Today we received the registration certificate for the NUI logo from the EU patent and trademark office, USA still pending

Back from CEBIT, it was pretty disappointing, not many interactive solutions

Our NUI twitter account rocketed into the second page on Google for “multitouch”

NUI’s new OEM Partner, German interactive solutions provider Mehr:wert, adds NUI Suite Snowflake to their extended product portfolio

AV specialist DB Systems (http://dbsystems.co.uk/) (UK) engages in OEM Partnership with NUI to serve the exhibition industry with Snowflake

Glad to see that we still inspire the Microsoft Surface team: http://tinyurl.com/cc5emy

We finalized the development of a multi-touch airhockey game that we will introduce at Dreamhack this weekend

Finally touched a MS Surface today at CEBIT and it was disappointing, slow tracking, especially with more inputs and a non durable top

Dropped some photo’s of the NUI / Young and Rubicam partnership showcase event in Singapore at http://www.multitouch.nl/

24th of February, NUI’s OEM Partner from UK demonstrated Snowflake on their multitouch wall at International Confex 2009

1-3 October 2008, IEEE Tabletops and Interactive Surfaces 2008 was held in Amsterdam, where NUI proudly presented an academic white paper that got approved for that event.

The paper that NUI Chairman Dr. Johannes Hirche of LTU (Lulea Technical University) Skelleftea presented was well received by the audience.

It was an important milestone for NUI to present this paper amongst Research Groups like the one from Microsoft.

I have now finally uploaded the white paper and it can be found here:

http://natural-ui.com/downloads/whitepapers/Adaptive_interface.pdf

NUI’s OEM Partner Ideum (USA), again successfully delivered an exciting new project, this time they completed an installation of a multitouch, multiuser table exhibit and two multitouch enabled kiosks for Vulcan Park and Museum in Birmingham, Alabama.

All installations that run on NUI Suite Snowflake at it’s core have customized multi-touch software applications running on them, developed by Ideum in Flash.
Ideum designed a mapping and photo mashup application showing interactive maps, panoramic images, and community-provided photography.

In addition to that they developed a multitouch panoramic viewing application that runs on two HP TouchSmart kiosks.

Ideum designed and developed the stand and exhibit-case for the HP TouchSmart. This platform provides a low-cost touch and multiouch platform for computer exhibits, operating on technology NextWindow one of NUI’s strong partners.

Visitors interact with the interactive map and photographs of Birmingham.

Some visitors have to be dragged away

The multitouch-enabled HP TouchSmart, operating on NextWindow’s integrated optical touch screen technology and running NUI Suite Snowflake with customized software applications developed by Ideum.

Original post: http://www.ideum.com/blog/2009/03/10/birmingham-today-multitouch-exhibition-space/

After having partnered up with NextWindow, NUI is delighted to see an increasing interest for NUI Suite Snowflake requests for the mult-touch enabled HP Touchsmarts platform.