This document summarizes a student group's project to develop an economical surface computing system for academic use. It introduces surface computing and compares it to traditional computing. It then outlines the design of the group's custom surface, including the hardware components like a wooden table, webcam, and projector, and the software used. It also provides a cost analysis of the hardware components and discusses potential application areas for this type of low-cost surface computing in academic institutions, restaurants, shops and more. The document concludes by thanking others involved and requesting feedback.

1. DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMICAL
COMPUTING SURFACES: AN
ACADEMIA’S PERSPECTIVE

2. GROUP MEMBERS
NAFEES AHMED(GL) (08CS96)
ADEEL AHMED (08CS98)
ASADULLAH NIZAMANI (08CS94)
HUMAIR BALOCH (08CS16)
Supervisor
Dr. Adnan Ashraf
Co-Supervisor
Engr. Ali Asghar Manjhoto

3. PRESENTATION OUTLINE
• Introduction to economical surfaces
• Traditional versus economical computing surfaces
• Design and Development of surface computing
• Cost and Scope Analysis
• Feedback and Conclusion

5. TRADITIONAL COMPUTING VS
SURFACE COMPUTING

6. SURFACE COMPUTING IN
ACADEMIA
Multi User Interaction: In Academia’s Perspective
Microsoft Surface provides a very good advantage as it
provides us Multi Touch &Multi User environment. E.g.
Multiple Students could Use and do Different things at a
single time.
Interactive and Easy to Use: It is very Interactive and
easy to use in a sense that from even a school boy to an
adult it provides an easy touch of understanding in its
usability and interface. Also as a user there is no such
requirement of any prior knowledge of the Computer
and Even Some one quite naive to technology can

7. DESIGN &
DEVELOPMENT
It Consists of two main Building blocks
Hardware
Software
Hardware
Our hardware consists of
 Wooden Table
 Webcam
 IR LEDS with 850 nm wave length
 Projector
 12v power supply

8. CONTINUED…
Computer
Tracing paper
Acrylic Sheet
Mirror
SOFTWARE
The software that we used for hardware interfacing is an open
source software that is Community core Vision version 1.4.
For the hardware to work properly in windows 7 we had to
install multi touch drivers for windows 7
For running flash applications on our hardware we used Adobe
Shockwave and Flash player.

9. COST AND
SCOPE
Item name
ANALYSIS
Quantity Price (in PKR)
WebCam 01 2500 COST
Acrylic sheet 01 2500
Infrared LEDS 170 3500
Table 01 3000
Camera Roll 01 120
Tracing paper 01 230
Buffer 01 120
Wire connector 01 150
Mirror 01 200
Soldering Iron 01 200
Soldering wire 01 60
Total 12580

10. SCOPE
ANALYSIS
The Scope analysis means that what are
different application areas of our
project
Some of them are stated below
Restaurants
Academic institutions
Shopping malls
Hotels
Banks , Hospitals and Franchises
Offices, Meetings ETC…..

11. SPECIAL THANKS TO
HARESH KUMAR (O8ES)
SARFARAZ KALWAR (QUEST STUDENT O8ES)
NIMRA (QUEST STUDENT O8BCS)
HIRA (O9CS)
SHABBIR MEMON (08CS)
SALEEM MANSOOR (LAB ASSISTANT CSR-LAB)
PLEASE REMEMBER TO GIVE YOUR FEED BACK