Medusa - A Proximity Aware Multi-touch Tabletop - ACM UIST 2011

[feki00]

How it deals with crossing hands?

[westfw]

1) I think adding proximity detection to the touch surface is a brilliant idea.

2) but the implementation looks pretty complex, expensive (anything times 138 is expensive), and fragile. Wouldn't it be possible to do something similar with kinect or camera based technology? (yes, I know that doing video processing to implement proximity detection seems like overkill, but with today's cheap cameras and excess available computing power, it might work better...)

[ReadyWater]

This is some fantastic research, keep it up.

[UNHCoffee]

You guys are off to a good start and on to something very good and useful. Keep up the good work. Maybe smaller sensors and more of them could further improve the resolution in later projects. Thanks for sharing.

[rasz]

from the video it looks like it barely works and lags like crap

[konrad303]

This evokes Interesting ideas. Surprisingly laggy in the demo however.