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some more on Kinect and homebrew uses in education. read about a contest in progress, scroll down for video of current experiments.

Going back to some of our earlier classes in which Prof. Dede discussed ways of using Kinect. It'll be interesting to see what choices Microsoft makes with Kinect...

Shows more possibilities of gesture based interactions using pico projectors and Kinect cameras.

Some interesting augmented reality examples

trying to understand the affordances for learning of gesture interfaces

Wii and Kinect Hack into EMOTIONS?

Xbox Kinect TV plans to bring interactive, immersive experiences to live action television and children's books with the help of National Geographic and Sesame Street's Workshop. Xbox is unveiling a sharp idea for the next generation of television: interactive, live-action content, produced in partnership Sesame Workshop and National Geographic. I was actually working at Sesame when this idea was first introduced. Many were skeptical but I'm glad to see they are going to try and utilize this technological movement forward.

Article about interactive Sesame Street episodes using Kinect. This may be particularly interesting for anyone else who is also in HT500.

A former Apple interface designer critiques Microsoft's 'Productivity Future Vision (2011)' video that has been spreading on the web (and a couple of you have shared here on Diigo).  The Apple guru's biggest gripe? Microsoft portrays a future dominated by single finger interaction with touch-enabled devices. But we are already seeing more elaborate Human-Computer interaction involving more of  our bodies and communication modes-- full body (Kinect, Microsoft), and voice & hearing (Siri, Apple). Mr. Victor says that Microsoft's vision wasn't as revolutionary as it seems.

I agree with the author on Microsoft's lack of vision about future technologies (which I also ranted about on facebook). At the same time, we have to note that Microsoft currently has devices that enable 'full body' communication and Apple does not. And their latest wonder 'Siri' was acquired, not developed internally. I respect Apple for their innovations but we haven't seen any 'vision' from Apple yet and I am curious to know what they might be thinking.

An AR game teaches you how to cook - similar to what we saw in the video a few weeks ago

Article about "playful learning" TV

This could be used as an alternate means of interacting with computers. From an educational standpoint this does not appear to be dated, but rather creating opportunities for people with limited means of motion.