Presentation on Surface Computing

1. SURFACE COMPUTING
Submitted By:
Jayati Tiwari

2.  INTRODUCTION
 DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS
 HOW IT WORKS
 FEATURES
 ADVANTAGES
 DISADVANTAGES
 APPLICATIONS
 CONCLUSION
CONTENTS

3. INTRODUCTION
 With Surface, Microsoft has established a new
branch of computer technology known as surface
computing.
 The goal is to recognize touch and objects on
the screen's surface and to interact with those
objects seamlessly
 Implements a Natural User Interface (NUI),
which lets you interact in ways that what comes
naturally to you. A NUI is driven by the direct
touch of the user or object it's interacting with
rather than separate input devices connected to
the computer.

4.  It includes multi-touch technology. This means that Surface
can detect and process several touch points simultaneously.
 Microsoft Pixel Sense (formerly called Microsoft Surface) is
an interactive surface computing platform that allows one or
more people to use touch and real world objects, and share
digital content at the same time.

5. DESIGN SPECIFICATION
 40-inch (1-meter) LCD screen
 4-inch (10.2-centimeter) unit depth/thickness for
easier horizontal mounting
 1 GB HD graphics processor
 4 GB RAM
 320 GB hard drive
 Wired (1 GB Ethernet) and wireless (WiFi and
Bluetooth) network hardware
 Physical connectors include USB and SD card
 Windows 7 Professional operating system
 Corning Gorilla Glass to protect the surface
 Recognition for more than 50 simultaneous touch
points

6. How It works…….
 A contact (finger/blob/tag/object) is placed on the display
 IR back light unit provides light (though the optical sheets, LCD and protection glass)
that hits the contact.
 Light reflected back from the contact is seen by the integrated sensors
 Sensors convert the light signal into an electrical signal/value
 Values reported from all of the sensors are used to create a picture of what is on the
display
 The picture is analyzed using image processing techniques
 The output is sent to the PC. It includes the corrected sensor image and various contact
types (fingers/blobs/tags)

8. FEATURES
 direct interaction,
 multi-touch contact,
 multi-user experience
 object recognition.

9.  Direct interaction refers to the user's ability to simply
reach out and touch the interface of an application in
order to interact with it, without the need for a mouse or
keyboard.
 Multi-touch contact refers to the ability to have multiple
contact points with an interface, unlike with a mouse,
where there is only one cursor.
 Multi-user experience is a benefit of multi-touch: several
people can orient themselves on different sides of the
surface to interact with an application simultaneously.
 Object recognition refers to the device's ability to
recognize the presence and orientation of tagged objects
placed on top of it.

10.  Slim device. The Samsung SUR40 is only 4 inches thin.
 A richer visual experience. With the rich color
saturation from a full HD display and a large screen
 A vision-based touch experience. With Microsoft
PixelSense, the Samsung SUR40 sees and responds to touch
and real world objects.
 Quick Controls. Venue staff can adjust basic settings
like volume, brightness, and input source.
 Customization options. An improved configuration
utility means you can quickly make changes to background
images, configure applications, and modify settings
without getting into code

11. ADVANTAGES
 Easy to use.
 Connect with customers through games and pastimes.
 Give people new ways to connect and communicate.
 Object Recognition.
 Make learning more fun.

12. DISADVANTAGES
 Technology is expensive.
 Privacy issues.
 No Personal space due to multi user
 Technology is unreliable and if a problem
occurred it would disrupt everything.
 Big in size, inconvenient.

13. APPLICATIONS
1) Paint :There are three draw modes that can be
toggled by touching an icon on the bottom of the toolbar:
brush, paint, and reveal, the last of which is kind of a
negative brush that shows a background bitmap
underneath.

14. 2) Maps :This interactive Bing map allows users to find
and present points of interest in an intuitive and visually
attractive way.

15. 3) In real estate

16. 4) In restaurant

17. 5) Games

18. 6) Official presentations

19. CONCLUSION
 Microsoft surface turns an ordinary tabletop into a
vibrant interactive surface.
 The product provides effortless access to digital
content through natural gestures , touch and
physical objects.
 Microsoft surface is the future of computers.
 Eventually every household may have one in place
of their everyday coffee table.
 Revolutionizes the way we think about computers.

20. THANK YOU