The name of our client is under NDA agreement.
Introduction: We are looking for a solution for both navigating 3D world and 2D data, by using multi-touch interface and multi-touch screen. We build our own touch screen, based on FTIR technology, and design creative and intuitive gestures to interact with our software system. My work is to prototype our interface system on paper, and come up with those gestures. In the end of the semester, we use the multi-touch software framework we create, integrating multi-touch hardware interface to present our final presentation.
My role: Interface Designer/ Texture Artist
- Design: Create 50+ intuitive gestures for users to perform multi-touch inputs to our system; providing FSM diagram storyboard for programmers.
- Art: Produce textures for 3D objects in Maya and 2 illustration videos to explain our another 2 kernel ideas to our client.
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2 Illustration Videos I make:
1. Virtual on-screen keyboard: Due to the limitation of our time and human resource, we decide to make 2 illustration animations to explain our anther 2 ideas to our client, instead of programming the whole system. The first idea is about Virtual on-screen keyboard System, which allows users to put both palms (up to 10 fingers) on our touch screen and a virtual keyboard will appear accordingly. That’s the way we would like to introduce for improving the typing words on a multi-touch screen.
2. Drawing on Multi-Touch screen: The second video I make is about how does our system work when users draw on our multi-touch screen. The video shows that the system will have 2 layers ready for accepting users’ input. When users’s finger touch the screen, the Alpha layer will become transparent based on where the users touch. Therefore user can see the color layer by passing through the finger-touched area of the Alpha layer. The color layer can be assigned to any color users want.