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TANGerINE (TANGible Interactive Natural Environment) is an ongoing research on TUIs (tangible user interfaces) combining previous experiences with natural vision-based gestural interaction on augmented surfaces and tabletops with the introduction of smart wireless objects and sensor fusion techniques.

Unlike passive recognized objects, common in mixed and augmented reality approaches, smart objects provide continuous data about their status through the embedded wireless sensors, while an external computer vision module tracks their position and orientation in space. Merging sensing data, the system is able to detect a richer language of gestures and manipulations both on the tabletop and in its surroundings, enabling for a more expressive interaction.

As a first approach we chose a cube to be the most useful neutral shape for users to manipulate, thanks to its six steady states, as well as its familiar (dice-like) affordance. The variety of the possible actions allows for a more expressive interaction language and provides to the application designer an environment with richer modes of operation that depend on the context in which the user acts.

TANGerINE cities CONCEPT: sonorizzare la città del futuro, attraverso la manipolazione collaborativa di oggetti sonori ispirati a città odierne

• TANGerINE cities permette di scegliere ed elaborare suoni provenienti da città odierne.
• TANGerINE cube raccoglie frammenti sonori del presente e li ricompone armonicamente per immaginare i suoni del futuro.
• TANGerINE cities è un mezzo di creazione sonora collettiva: uno spiraglio sul mondo sonoro della città del futuro.

p.s. Un Grazie Speciale a Omar e a tutti i componenti del Team TANGerINE che porteranno tutto ciò alle FRONTIERE dell’INTERAZIONE 2009.