PointScreen - Minority Report Style Interface (2003) by Monika Fleischmann & Wolfgang Strauss

PointScreen is a novel interface to manipulate digital artefacts touchlessly based on enhanced human body energy. Currently, the control, i.e. cursor movement and selection, of computational devices is dominated either by mouse-click for desktop applications or by touch-screen-press for public terminals. The PointScreen interface enables the user to control the computer intuitively with a simple pointing gesture and to navigate or execute commands simply by pointing at the screen - without touching it at any time. Thus, it is highly suitable for application domains in the public or semi-public space like in museums, exhibitions or for interactive window-shopping. Beyond, areas with a high need of hygiene e.g. as surgeries, may be interested in the system since it is operated touchlessly. PointScreen is easy and economically to install and maintain: the system can be placed invisibly behind any non-metal material and integrated easily with any normal display or projection surface. As first application, the "Info-Jukebox", a digital multimedia kiosk system, was developed.

Artists / Authors: Wolfgang Strauss, Monika Fleischmann with Yinlin Li

Origination: Germany, 2003
http://www.eculturefactory.de/pointscreen
http://www.eculturefactory.de/digital-sparks-matrix

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• pointscreen
• minority
• report
• interface
• interaction
• eculture
• YOUser
• ZKM
• interactive
• installation
• scenography
• new
• media
• art
• Monika
• Fleischmann
• Wolfgang
• Strauss

[superdk55]

awesome! :o

[snooopy4008]

THAT LOOKS SO AWESOME!!!!!!!!

[jimseriatos]

this is really the future !! Control without even touch, touch panels are already something of the past !!