The UK's Leading Multi Touch Researchers

INSITU Augmented Reality iPhone app: Welcome to the 5th Dimension

Oli Mival — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:29:42 +0000

A rare foray in front of the camera for our video pitch for the Digital Innovation Contest for the National Museum of Scotland. INSITU uses Aurasma's amazing augmented reality platform to deliver a contextually aware, entertaining, and informative mobile and location specific experience to museum visitors.

Fascinating Mummies Exhibit at the National Museum Scotland

Oli Mival — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:04:16 +0000

Dr Oli Mival was asked by the National Museums Scotland to pull together the exciting new research material from their Fascinating Mummies exhbition into an information video. This research brought together some of the world's formost experts in Egyptology, forensic pathology, radiology and a host of other domains to explore CT data gathered on one of the museum's mummies.

The exhibition has received excellent reviews and runs until May 27th. Find out more here.

A new video of the ICE in action

Oli Mival — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:28:50 +0000

Here's a new video of the ICE in action in a multitude of different scenarios. It's a bit of a "greatest hits" of videos from the past but there's some new stuff in there too..

Multi-Disciplinary Team Meetings in the ICE

Oli Mival — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:01:12 +0000

Here's a quick video demonstrating the ICE being used for a medical MDT (Multi-Disciplinary Team) meeting where both local and remote participants can interact with a patient's medical data and case history for diagnostic and treatment purposes.

The Team grows

Oli Mival — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:46:00 +0000

The full time Future Interactions team has grown this summer with the addition of two very talented developers, Aurélien Ammeloot and Richard Nesnass. They both bring enthusiasm and serious development chops to the team and have hit the ground running as the projects mount up!

Aurelien Ammeloot & Richard Nesnass join the team

The Digital Wall is installed

Oli Mival — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:06:12 +0000

The next part of our Future Living Future Life project is underway with the installation of our 8K resolution (4320x1920) 2.5m x 1m digital wall. Using Multitouch.fi's cornerstone SDK for full hand n-point DI multi-touch combined with rear projection blending it's remarkably responsive and feels like a huge a 110" iPad! We're in beta period whilst we finish the 1.0 release of the software which will be a multi-user multi-touch mapping, services and timetabling resource for students and visitors alike.

An example of some GIS software in the ICE

Oli Mival — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:35:15 +0000

This is a quick video to show how Law Enforcement specific GIS software could be utilised in a multi-touch enabled space like Edinburgh Napier University's ICE (Interactive Collaborative Environment).

The ICE gets a 4 page spread in E&T magazine

Oli Mival — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:37:53 +0000

The Institution of Engineering and Technology has taken a great interest in our work and invited us to write a short piece for their magazine. The short piece became a 4 page spread with pictures and video! Check out the link below to read the full article:

E&T article

ICE to host sicsa multitouch workshop on July 2nd

Oli Mival — Tue, 18 May 2010 10:28:47 +0000

The ICE will play host to a sicsa workshop on the interaction design and development of multitouch enabled environments and software. The workshop is part of the CREATE 2010 conference running from June 30th to July 2nd.

From CREATE website:

"Centering on the newly installed "Future Meeting Room" at Merchiston Campus, this afternoon workshop will address novel forms of expressive and gestural human-technology interactions. The workshop will be specifically focusing on the interaction design challenges of developing applications and services for multi-touch, multi-user collaboration, and will include theoretical and case-study discussions alongside some practical design activities.

The workshop is intended for research students, and SICSA PhD students will be given priority for places, however Create10 conference delegates are welcome to attend if there is sufficient capacity.

If you would like to attend this workshop please email a (maximum) 1 page statement outlining yourself and your affiliation, describing your research interests and activities, and telling us why you would like to attend the workshop.

Please send your statement to: Ingi Helgason by Friday June 4th."

The British Council have an article on the ICE

Oli Mival — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:45:19 +0000

The British Council's Cubed online magazine have an article featuring the ICE and an interview with Oli.