Interacting with steerable projected displays

Abstract

When computer vision is combined with a steerable projector, any surface in an environment can be turned into an interactive interface, without having to modify or wire the surface. Steerable projected displays offer rich opportunities and pose new challenges for interaction based on gesture recognition. In this paper, we present real-time techniques for recognizing "touch" and "point" gestures on steerable projected displays produced by a new device called the Everywhere Displays projector (ED-projector). We demonstrate the viability of our approach through an experiment involving hundreds of users interacting with projected interfaces.