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Article: Research from Technical University of Munich in science provides new insights.(Report)
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- Leisure & Travel Week
- Article date:
- November 14, 2009
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"As more interactive surfaces enter public life, casual interactions from passersby are bound to increase. Most of these users can be expected to carry a mobile phone or PDA, which nowadays offers significant computing capabilities of its own," scientists in Garching, Germany report.
"This offers new possibilities for interaction between these users' private displays and large public ones. In this paper, we present a system that supports such casual interactions. We first explore a method to track mobile phones that are placed on a horizontal interactive surface by examining the shadows which are cast on the surface. This approach detects the presence of a mobile ...