| Faculty name: | Ricardo Jorge Jota Costa (and Daniel Wigdor) |
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| Research area: | Human-computer interaction |
| Campus address: | Bahen 5260 |
| Campus phone: | 416-946-8892 |
| Email address: |
jotacosta [at] dgp.toronto.edu
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| Number of students: | 2 |
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The virtual world and the physical world are super-imposed. How does one shifts between one and the other? How do different virtual worlds interact between them?
To answer these questions, we propose the cleanSpace project: A physical space that overlays an underlying virtual world, accessible through a gesture - much like cleaning a window to see the outside. The objective of this application is develop a human-computer interaction project focus on blending the virtual and real work in a seamless way. We explore how this idea could help bring interactivity to any space and blend real with virtual spaces defined (and deleted) by users at will.
The applicant will deal with cutting-edge technologies such as multiple Kinect cameras to create a physical space sensible to user actions such as gestures, but also human presence and other objects. The applicant will be responsible for the setup of the hardware required to sense the space and the development of the framework to infer user gestures. The development will be supervised by a researcher expert in the field and the applicant will be provided with the tools and knowledge required to execute the project.