Speaker: John Wyrwas & Hae-Jong Seo
Title: Interacting with 3D Displays: presentation and demonstration
Abstract: A novel three dimensional user interface technology (3D UI) is demonstrated. The interface is a single planar device enabling multiple modes of human/machine interaction operating continuously from on the device surface to off the device surface; a surface-to-air capability. For example, our device can not only sense multiple finger touch and multiple stylus interaction on its surface, but also can detect “air touch”, “air pinch” and gestures in the near field space up to several inches above its surface. Thus, two dimensional user interface functionality has been extended continuously into the third dimension above the device.
Speaker Biography: John M. Wyrwas is a Staff Engineer with Qualcomm Corporate Research and Development laboratories, part of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., in Santa Clara, California. He received the B.S. degrees in physics and electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2007, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2010 and 2012, respectively. Since 2012, he has been with Qualcomm in the Bay Area. His research interests include sensors, optoelectronics, computer vision, and brain computer interfaces.
Speaker Biography: Hae Jong Seo received PhD degree in electrical engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea, in 2005 and 2006, respectively. His research interests are in the domain of image processing, computer vision, and machine learning. He is a member of the IEEE and ACM. He is currently a senior engineer at Qualcomm CR&D.
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