Author profiles

[Görkem Çetin]

Hi,

Could you please send 2 sentence bio of you until Wednesday, 15th? Not more than 3-4 lines, please.

PS: We are mostly done with the book, only waiting for the drafts from Lynn, Donovan and Christian.

Thanks.

Best
Görkem

[Nolan]

Nolan Ramseyer (Peau Productions) is a student at University of California, San Diego in the United States studying Bioengineering: Biotechnology with a background in computers and multimedia.  His work in optical-based multi-touch has consumed a larger part of his free time and through his experimentations and learning has helped others achieve their own projects and goals.

Is that good?
-Nolan

[Görkem Çetin]

Can't be better. Thanks :)

-- Görkem

2009/4/13 Nolan <peaupro...@gmail.com>

[Taha]

Mohammad Taha Bintahir (Taha) an undergraduate student at University
of Ontario Institute of Technology, in Toronto Canada studying
Electrical Engineering and Business and focusing on microelectronics
and programming. He's currently doing personal research for his thesis
project involving, both electronic and optical based Multi-touch and
multi-modal hardware systems.

Is this okay??
Taha

[Lynn Marentette]

Gorkem,

I am back at my hotel-

This is probably too much information, but I am so happy for my father.  He busy day at the hospital - he passed a swallowing test and had his first taste of food in seven weeks this evening. He also had his tracheostomy capped and now is breathing through his nose and mouth.

I will send my chapter revision soon.  (I uploaded a few pictures that I was considering including in my chapter, if you were wondering about what I was up to on the Google Group.)

Lynn

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Seeking Sustainable Innovation

[Paul D'Intino]

Hey All,

Here's my Bio...

Paul D'Intino (Fairlane) Is the Technical
Training Manager at Pioneer Electronics in Melbourne, Australia.
In 2003 he completed a

Certificate III in Electrotechnology Entertainment and Servicing

, and went onto repairing Consumer Electronics equipment,
specializing in Plasma TV's. His work in both
hardware and software for multi-touch systems
grew from his passion for electronics,
which he aims to further develop with help from the NUI Group.

Cheers,
-Paul

[Ramsin Khoshabeh]

Hi Görkem,

Here is my author profile:

Ramsin Khoshabeh is a graduate Ph.D. student in the University of California, San Diego in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. He works in the in the Distributed-Cognition and Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory in the Cognitive Science department. His research is focused on developing novel tools for the interaction with and analysis of large datasets of videos. As part of his work, he has created MultiMouse, a multi-touch Windows mouse interface, has built VideoNavigator, a cross-platform multi-touch video navigation interface, and has assisted in the development of the tBeta framework for the NUIGroup community.

I hope that is good.

Regards,
Ramsin

[Görkem Çetin]

Hi

These are the profiles I've received so far. Those who hasn't finished up with their 3-4-line profile, please do so asap today :)

Thank you.

Best
Görkem

[Görkem Çetin]

Hi Lynn

Take two days. We still have to finish up with editing, revising and merging chapters.

Best
Görkem

2009/4/14 Lynn Marentette <lynnmar...@gmail.com>

[TimRoth]

Tim Roth studied Interaction Design at the Zurich University of the
Arts. During his studies,
he focussed on interface design, dynamic data visualization and new
methods of human computer
interaction.His diploma dealt with the customer and consultant
situation in the private banking
sector. The final output was a multitouch surface, that helped the
consultant to explain and
visualize the complexeties of modern financial planning.

Tim Roth is currently working as a research assistant for the Zurich
University of the Arts.

[Ashish Rai]

Ashish Kumar Rai is an undergraduate student in Electronics
Engineering at Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University,
India. His major contribution is the development of the simulator
QMTSim. Currently his work consists of development of innovative
hardware and software solutions for the advancement of NUI.

[donovan]

Hi!

Donovan Solms is a Multimedia student at the University of Pretoria in
Gauteng, South Africa. After building the first multitouch screen in
South Africa in the first quarter of 2007, he continued to develop
software for multitouch using .NET 3 and ActionScript 3. He can
currently be found building commercial multitouch surfaces and
software at Multimedia Solutions in South Africa.

[xelapond]

Alex Teiche is an enthusiast that has been working with Human-Computer Interaction for several years, with a very acute interest in collaborative multiuser interaction.  He recently completed his LLP Table, and has been contributing to the PyMT project for several months.  He is now experimenting with thin Multi-Touch techniques that are constructable using easily accessible equipment to the average hobbyist.

[Rishi Bedi]

Great - I sent an email to Chris Yanc (AS3) cc'd to you, with his (excellent) first draft and a request for an author blurb.

 

Thanks,

Rishi

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Rishi Bedi
rbed...@gmail.com

[Lynn Marentette]

I 'm waiting for a meeting with my dad's medical team and will send info after  the meeting.  Sorry for my delay, things have been complicated. 

Lynn

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Seeking Sustainable Innovation

[Chris Yanc]

Chris Yanc has been a professional interactive designer at an online
marketing agency in Cleveland OH for over 4 years. After constructing
his own FTIR multi-touch table, he has been focusing on using Flash and
Actionscript 3.0 to develop multi-touch applications from communication
with tBeta and Touchlib. Chris has been sharing the progress of his
multi-touch Flash experiments with the NUIGroup community.

-Chris Yanc
(cyancdesign)

[Falcon4ever]

I've changed it a bit:

Laurence Muller (M.Sc.) is a scientific programmer at the Scientific
Visualization and Virtual Reality Research Group (Section
Computational Science) at the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam in
the Netherlands. In 2008 he completed his thesis research project
titled: “Multi-touch displays: design, applications and performance
evaluation”. Currently he is working on innovative scientific software
for multi-touch devices.

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[Thomas Hansen]

Gorkem,

Thanks for the editing, looks good to me :) Do I need to change
anything else? wording or anything? I'm notorious for run on
sentences and bad spelling, so i hope thats not too bad.

Heres a profile blurb:

Thomas Hansen is PhD. Student at the University of Iowa and open
source enthusiast. His research interests include Information
Visualization, Computer Graphics, and especially Human Computer
Interaction directed at therapeutic applications of novel interfaces
such as multi-touch displays. This and his other work on multi-touch
interfaces has been supported by the University of Iowa's Mathematical
and Physical Sciences Funding Program.

Hope thats not too long. Have to put that last sentence or my advisor
is going to be very unhappy :/

I also want to thank everyone for letting me be part of such a great
and motivated team of contributors! This book is really shaping up
and everyone has done amazing work! Respect for everyone and
especially gorkem and rbedi for conceiving and pulling everything
together! :)

--
Thomas

[Görkem Çetin]

Hi Thomas

You don't need to change anything now - but it's better you have a final look to the draft I'll send to the list today or tomorrow ..

Thanks :)

Best
Görkem

2009/4/15 Thomas Hansen <thomas...@gmail.com>