Are we finally going to take the plunge and recognize the value of what we saw in Minority Report with Tom Cruise manipulating data without using a mouse?
Vincent John Vincent of GestureTek (http://www.gesturetek.com/) describes the functionality of gesture technology:
Gesture technology is enabling advertisers to entertain and inform as an individual walks across a floor space or interacts with a wall and moves their head, hands, legs, or feet – wiping away one colorful picture or dynamic image and revealing another. GroundFX from GestureTek, for example, enables people to walk over a floor space and turn over interactive tile components, step on animated buttons to call up information and run videos, add color to black and white images they step over, and even kick balls and other objects that appear on a floor or wall.
http://www.industrial-embedded.com/articles/vincent/
While the corporate world has implemented gesture technology as a critical marketing tool, education is slow to understand the value of a tool that draws the user into the environment, instead of being a passive observer. This type of learning solution is ideal for universities in attracting prospective students and creating a collaborative atmosphere from the first moment a new student steps on campus.
Take a look at these examples for inspiration:
http://gesturetek.org/VideoPreviewGallery/_External/index.html
How might this be used on your campus?
