23 Apr 2009

Multi-touch Community Cores (Part 2)

As my proposal was approved to the Google Summer of Code (GSOC) 2009, now it is time to enjoy the community bounding and start working

The title is:

Recognition, Tracking and Association of Hands, Fingers, and Blobs: A Community Core Upgrade
Student: Thiago Araujo
Mentor: Laurence Muller

Main details can be found on: http://nuigroup.com/?ACT=28&fid=86&aid=2932_9UkjmROAVO2IXGyvi1fI

Most of the things of how to achieve this task, I am still studying, talking with some people, with the mentors and the ~ community to get the best approach. I do not promise to be posting a lot of information, but as soon as I get ( and I hope that I will get..hehe ) something interesting to show I will promptly post on this blog and on the Nuigroup forum. Congratulations to all the other accepted students from Nuigroup, and to the other mentoring organizations involved on GSOC too.

A special “congrat” to the other 4 students from my university ( Universidade Federal de Campina Grande – UFCG) that got accepted:

André Dieb Martins – Enlightenment – Electrical Engineering
Danilo Araújo de Freitas – Python – Computer Science
Felipe Ribeiro Nogueira Barbosa – PHP – Computer Science
Thiago de Freitas Oliveira Araújo – NuiGroup – Electrical Engineering
Thiago Sousa Santos - GStreamer – Computer Science

And to the other 6 students selected to Nuigroup:

Multi-touch Extension Module for Google SketchUp
Student: Anirudh Sharma
Mentor: Pawel Solyga

NUI Paint: Exploring and developing new multi-touch interactions by creating new widgets for a concrete graphics application
Student: Sharath Patali
Mentor: Thomas Hansen

MPX X.Org TUIO Driver
Student: Ryan Huffman
Mentor: Martin Kaltenbrunner
Creating Models for Learning and Recognizing Gestures
Student: Sashikanth Damaraju
Mentor: Alexander Popovich

Component-Based HCI UI Framework and High-Level HCI Library for Java
Student: Ori Rawlings
Mentor: Christian Moore

An openframeworks toolkit for developing multi-touch musical interfaces
Student: Dimitri Diakopoulos
Mentor: Seth Sandler