Horizon Report 2010: Gesture Computing; NYLA-3Rs - Academic Librarians 2010 Faster than the Speed of Bytes: Technology, Cognition, and the Academic Librarian June 7 & 8, 2010, Holiday Inn Downtown, Ithaca

1. GESTURE BASED
COMPUTING
(Four to Five Years)

2. The Promise of Gesture Computing for Libraries:
Beyond organizing, storing, preserving, accessing,
evaluating, producing, & teaching
Will Libraries Be the Place For
INTERACTING
With Information

3. 2 Primary Forms
Touch/Surface Based Interaction
Imitative Input / Recognition Response

4. Touch/Surface Based: Portables
The Apple iPad
(large iPhone+)

5. Multi-Touch/Surface Based

6. Hybrid – Touch: Kno E-Textbook
The KNO Digital Textbook
http:/www.kno.com

7. Touch/Surface: SmartDesks

8. Touch/Surface Based: Table Surfaces
Microsoft “Surface” at Ball State Library
Microsoft “Surface” as UI (UX)
Object Recognition

9. Touch/Surface Based: Walls
These Walls Are Soooo 2008!

10. Touch/Surface: Walls
Intel Infoscape
Who
Cubes Is
Of Gonna
Related Catalog
Content This
Content?

11. Touch/Surface: Apps That Imitate
iPhone Guitar App.
“Hoccer” App for iPhone/
Android/Web Client
contacts, text, bookmarks, images,
(coming soon - pdf & zip)

12. Gesture Imitation/Recognition
Recognition and
Response Technologies
2-Way Communication

13. Gesture Imitation/Recognition
More Than A Toy
Nintendo Wii
Rehab
Training
Surgeons
Wii
Hacks

14. Gesture: Gaming
Wii Walkthroughs
From Conduit - Library of Congress For Nintendo Wii
The Library of Congress
The largest library in the world is no place for a gunfight,
but try telling that to the Drudge, our future extraterrestrial overlords.

15. Gesture Imitation/Recognition
Virtual Keyboards Are Here
Oooo Look! Twitter!

16. Gesture Assistive Recognition
The “Hummer
Neckband”
Converts
Sound
Vibrations
into
Computer
Input
Incl.
Clicking
Turning Pages
Moves Mouse
Hummer Neckband Developed at Bloorview Kids Rehab in Toronto

17. Gesture Imitation/Recognition
Handtracking:
The hardware for a new gesture-based computing system consists of nothing more
than an ordinary webcam and a pair of brightly colored lycra gloves.

18. Gesture Imitation/Recognition
Are You Ready for a “Sixth Sense”
from MIT Labs

19. Is Thinking a Gesture?
What’s Next?

20. Onto.. Visual Data Analysis