Dual Mode IR Position and State Transfer for Tangible Tabletops
Paper in proceeding, 2011

This paper presents a method for tracking multiple active tangible devices on tabletops. Most tangible devices for tabletops use infrared to send information about their position, orientation, and state. The method we propose can be realized as a tabletop system using a low-cost camera to detect position and a low-cost infrared (IR) receiver to detect the state of each device. Since two different receivers (camera and IR-receiver) are used simultaneously we call the method dual mode. Using this method, it is possible to use devices with a large variation of states simultaneously on a tabletop, thus having more interactive devices on the surface.

IR tracking

Performance

dual mode

Active tangible devices

multi TUI

Algorithms

tabletop

Author

Ali Alavi

Student at Chalmers

Masanori Sugimoto

University of Tokyo

Andreas Kunz

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH)

Morten Fjeld

Chalmers, Applied Information Technology (Chalmers), Interaction design

Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces

Vol. 1 1 278-279

Subject Categories

Computer Engineering

Computer Vision and Robotics (Autonomous Systems)

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

DOI

10.1145/2076354.2076414

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