LightBeam
Pico projectors have lately been investigated as mobile display and interaction devices. We propose to use them as 'light beams': Everyday objects sojourning in a beam are turned into dedicated projection surfaces and tangible interaction devices. While this has been explored for large projectors, the affordances of pico projectors are fundamentally different: they have a very small and strictly limited projection ray and can be carried around in a nomadic way during the day. Thus it is unclear how this could be actually leveraged for tangible interaction with physical, real world objects.
This is a joint work between Telecooperation Lab and FX Palo Alto Laboratory (FXPAL). Please direct any questions or inquiries to the corresponding author, Jochen Huber.
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Engadget: "LightBeam pico projector turns any surface into a display, any object into a remote"
Selected Publications
Jochen Huber, Jürgen Steimle, Chunyuan Liao, Qiong Liu and Max Mühlhäuser: "LightBeam: Nomadic Pico Projector Interaction with Real World Objects", In CHI '12: Extended Abstracts of the 30th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM Press, 2012. (to appear)
Jochen Huber, Chunyuan Liao, Jürgen Steimle, Qiong Liu: "Toward Bimanual Interactions with Mobile Projectors on Arbitrary Surfaces" , In Proceedings of MP²: Workshop on Mobile and Personal Projection in conjunction with CHI 2011, 2011.