The soul of activeCube - Implementing a flexible, multimodal, three-dimensional spatial tangible interface

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 74, Issue , 2004, Pages 173-180

  Watanabe, Ryoichi ^a   Itoh, Yuichi ^a   Asai, Masatsugu ^a   Kitamura, Yoshifumi ^a   Kishino, Fumio ^a   Kikuchi, Hideo ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b System Watt Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

3d modeling; Actuator; Bi directional interface; Display; Input; Output; Real time interaction; Sensor

Indexed keywords

3D MODELING; BI-DIRECTIONAL; INPUT-OUTPUT; INTERFACE DISPLAYS; OUTPUT; REAL TIME INTERACTIONS;

ACTUATORS; FACE RECOGNITION; GEOMETRY; SENSORS; USER INTERFACES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 69849094033     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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