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A tabletop display with personal screens made from a curtain of mist has been unveiled at an international conference.
Personal screens made from a curtain of mist allow users to move images around and push through the fog- screens and onto the display. The research paper, presented at
one of the world’s most important conferences on human-computer interfaces – ACM CHI 2014], could change the way people interact and collaborate in the future. MisTable, led by Professor
Sriram Subramanian and Dr Diego Martinez Plasencia from the University of Bristol’s Department of Computer Science, is a tabletop system that combines a conventional interactive table with personal screens, built using fog, between the user and the tabletop surface. These personal screens are both
see-through and reach-through. The see-through feature provides direct line of sight of the personal screen and the elements behind it on the tabletop. The reach- through feature allows the user
TECH COURSES ON THE RISE
Engineering, technology and computer science-related degrees have seen the greatest rise in UCAS applicants this year, according to new figures. The ‘Engineering’ subject group saw
an increase in applications of 11% to nearly 150,000, while the ‘Computer Sciences’ group saw a rise of 13% to break the 100,000 mark and the ‘Technologies’ group rose 15% to just over 10,000. Stephanie Fernandes from the Institution of Engineering and
Technology (IET) said: "The figures show very welcome increases in university application figures for engineering, computer sciences and technologies courses. "With engineering companies
projected to have 2.74 million job openings between 2010 and 2020, there is an urgent need to encourage many more young people into engineering to meet demand. "Given the rise in awareness of the
skills gap among government, employers and educators, we hope that this rise will continue over time so that we can fill the skills void facing the engineering sector." Engineering is now the sixth most
popular subject group with 148,950 applicants, behind medicine with 381,050, business and administration studies with 301,080, creative arts and design with 258,870, biological studies with 241,680 and social studies with 214,730.
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ABOVE: The personal screens are both see- through and reach-through
to switch from interacting with the personal screen to reaching through it to interact with the tabletop or the space above it. The personal screen allows a
range of customisations such as presenting 2D personal content on the screen, 3D content above the tabletop or supplementing and renewing actual objects differently for each user. Sriram Subramanian, Professor
of Human-Computer Interaction, at Bristol’s Interaction and Graphics group, said: “MisTable broadens the potential of conventional tables in many novel and unique ways. The personal screen provides direct line of sight and access to the different interaction spaces.” A copy of the paper is
available to download: htp://
tinyurl.com/Mistable
Image courtesy of Bristol Interaction and Graphics group, University of Bristol, copyright © 2014
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