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2006-02-07T19:14:53-05:00Phone Slave
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The Phone Slave was created by Christopher Schmandt, Barry Arons, Marc Spehlman. It combined a range of concepts including gestural interfaces, database backend, and voice messaging. Callers were asked to leave a name, a reference for the call, a...Video Archiveray cha2006-02-07T19:14:53-05:00Aspen Interactive Movie Map
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In 1981, Andrew Lippman and a team of researchers captured images of the streets of Aspen using four cameras mounted on the top of a car in different seasons of the year. The videodisc based system could call images...Video Archiveray cha2006-02-07T17:20:51-05:00Movie Manual
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This follow up to project to Aspen Interactive Movie Map was created by Andrew Lippman's group, in 1982. The Movie provided a touch screen interface that allowed users to read instructions on automobile maintenance, along with accompanying videos demonstration....Video Archiveray cha2006-02-07T17:19:03-05:00Put That There
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Put That There was an mapping system utilizing speech recognition technology to input commands. Using shipping as a context, users could identify locations and objects on the map. The system processed verbal commands from the user as well as...Video Archiveray cha2006-02-07T17:18:15-05:00Talking Heads
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Talking Heads selected distilled forms of human interaction (gesture and image) which explored increasing the feeling of presence in telecommunications without using live video. This early experiment in remote presence and telecommunications used a camera as well as sensors...Video Archiveray cha2006-02-07T17:18:00-05:00Lip Sync
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Peggy Weil: "As an animator, my first contribution was to give the Votrax (a voice synthesizer machine) a face, or at least, a mouth. I digitized sixteen lip positions and matched them to the Votrax library of phonemes. Using...Video Archiveray cha2006-02-07T17:17:56-05:00Caricature Generator
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This project explored the relationship between the perception of a caricature line drawing and the actual face. The system compared a vectorized drawing of a face and compared it against an average face. Using a slider interface, the user...Video Archiveray cha2006-02-07T17:17:39-05:00Zero Bandwidth Video
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In the early 80s when Talking Heads was created, limitations in bandwidth created the need to explore how to add gestural and facial information to simulate real time video. By creating a variety of ways to communicate, the Architect...Video Archiveray cha2006-02-07T17:17:02-05:00Communication News
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This Color Dynamics project linked color with communication. This electronic newspaper prototype combined text, images and maps. The system contained two viewing modes, one showed the entire screen, and the other focused on a smaller section of the newspaper....Video Archiveray cha2006-02-07T17:16:39-05:00Deskfile
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This project demonstrates an email management system with a graphical user interface. Deskfile utitlzed both the user's desktop and optical discs for storage, a departure from client server models of the time. Individual emails contained icons demarcating the sender...Video Archiveray cha2006-02-07T17:13:11-05:00Archfile
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Archfile contained a database of 5000 entries of American architecture, where was accessible through a touch screen. Users could search the database by architect, era, location, style, building type. Search results were presented and could be further refined. Images...Video Archiveray cha2006-02-07T16:47:53-05:00Picassofile
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Picassofile was a digital storage retrieval system to navigate the works of Picasso using a touch screen. Users selected groups of images, by choosing fields organized around categories including: form, material, and importance. Images were presented with metadata of...Video Archiveray cha2006-02-07T16:45:18-05:00Graphical Marionette
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This project was a computer model of an animated human body. The creators named this animation "scripting by enactment." Two cameras tracked and recorded the location of LEDs attached to joints of the user being captured. Using this information,...Video Archiveray cha2006-02-07T16:42:21-05:00Viewpoint Dependent Imaging
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Using a magnetic tracker, Viewpoint Dependent Imaging recognized the location of the user's head position. In real time, the system selected from thousands of stored images the correct viewpoint of the user. Note: this video clip has no audio....Video Archiveray cha2006-02-07T16:41:46-05:00Stereoscopic Workstation
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This project used 3D video display with 3D input. This technology was used to created applications as diverse as real time 3D painting, interactive 3D modeling, gestural input for a 3D virtual desktop, and mapping a virtual "robot" to...Video Archiveray cha2006-02-07T16:29:26-05:00