DEVELOPMENT OFECONOMICAL SURFACES: AN ACADEMIA’S

PERSPECTIVE

• NAFEES AHMED(GL) (08CS96) • ADEEL AHMED (08CS98)• ASADULLAH NIZAMANI (08CS94)• HUMAIR BALOCH (08CS16)

Unified Crest Research and Development Platform

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SYSTEM ENGINEERINGMEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

JAMSHORO

Presentation Outline

• Introduction to economical surfaces

• Traditional versus economical computing surfaces

• Design and Development of surface computing (DeskTAP)• Working of DeskTAP• Cost and Scope Analysis

• Feedback

• Conclusion

Economical Surfaces

Traditional Computing Vs. Surface Computing

Surface Computing You can use your fingers

for input. It provides direct

interaction to user. It provides Multi-touch &

Multi-user environment. It also support object

recognition .

Traditional Computing Use of a mouse and

keyboard for input. It doesn’t provide

direct interactivity. Single user can only

work on the computer.

Surface Computing in Academia

Multi User Interaction• In Academia’s Perspective these economical surface may be

very effective: provides Multi-touch / Multi-user environment, i.e., many students can perform different activities simultaneously.

Interactive and Easy-to-Use• These surfaces are very Interactive and easy-to-use such that a

kindergarten to a qualified one can operate with it conveniently.

Design & Development of DeskTAP

Building blocks of DeskTAP• Hardware• Software

Hardware

Hardware consists of Wooden Table Webcam IR LEDS with 850 nm wave length Projector 12v power supply

Continued…

ComputerTracing paperAcrylic Sheet Mirror

SOFTWAREThe software that we used for hardware interfacing is an open source software that is Community core Vision version 1.4.

For the hardware to work properly in windows 7 we had to install multi touch drivers for windows 7

For running flash applications on our hardware we used Adobe Shockwave and Flash player.

Cost and Scope Analysis

Item name Quantity Price (in PKR)

WebCam 01 2500

Acrylic sheet 01 2500

Infrared LEDS 170 3500

Table 01 3000Camera Roll 01 120

Tracing paper 01 230

Buffer 01 120Wire connector 01 150

Mirror 01 200Soldering Iron 01 200

Soldering wire 01 60

Total 12580

Scope Analysis

• The Scope analysis encompasses the different application areas of our project.

• Some of them are stated below Restaurants Academic institutions Shopping malls Hotels Banks , Hospitals and Franchises Offices, Meetings ETC…..

Conclusion

• Surface computing in academia provides more advantages over traditional computing

• It provides multiuser and multi touch environment for all the users, which are its key features and provides it the wow effect

• The economical model that we have proposed and developed if implemented it could be very much useful in different application areas pertaining to academia

Here is our surface video