Multitouch Tech Continues

Jeff Han’s new company, Perceptive Pixel, is finally out, hopefully building multi-touch interfaces for commercial applications.

    Interesting enough, MultiTouch displays weren't the only things that Jeff Han worked on. Before the multitouch display interaction research, Hans worked on several implementations that involved displays through other means. Indeed if you watch the videos, you will find all the applications that have made interaction a lot funner and interesting. Such applications as the Media Mirror (an interactive video installation where 200 channels of live cable tv are continuously rearranged in real-time to form a mosaic representation of the person that stands in front of it).

Media Mirror

  The applications I've seen thus far has definitely put a twist on designing interaction for a multitude of applications. Although the standard medium is through mouse and keyboard, creating expandable applications that have full support for any medium of interaction should be an absolute necessity. Thus, shortcuts and navigation could be driven through the keyboard, or clicked through menus and buttons with a mouse. And even if there is a touch display, don't make your applications either too hard to read or too picky about what you're choosing. Anyways, back to Jeff Han.

Jeff Han used to be a research scientist at New York University's (NYU) Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and one of the main developers of an interface free touch driven computer display. And outside multitouch interaction, Jeff worked on projects such as: autonomous robot navigation, motion capture, real-time computer graphics. He's even been featured on TED Talks, a technology interaction design website, where he debuts the latest production of the Multitouch Hi-Resolution, low-cost interaction display applications.

From the story of Jeff Han's first debut of the technology after a company known as Fingerworks (more here), this new company has the potential of opening the market up for development and integration with this technology. If there's anything that could open up the world for development and interaction it definitely multi-touch technology. Providing a more interactive environment, less driven by mouses and keyboards.