SURFACE COMPUTING

MICROSOFT SURFACE

SUBMITTED BY: BHAVNA ASWAL Roll no. - 31 HARSHITA POKHAR Roll no. - 49

INDEX
Introduction Features Microsoft Surface History Structure and Working Applications Bibliography

INTRODUCTION

Surface computing is the term for the use of a specialized computer GUI in which traditional GUI elements is replaced by intuitive, everyday objects. Instead of a keyboard and mouse, the user interacts directly with a touch-sensitive screen. Surface computing is slowly starting to catch on and is starting to be used in real world applications. The Microsoft Surface is starting to pick up popularity and has been used in various places and venues. AT&T became the first retailer to use Surface to help their customers purchase phones. A surface computer is a computer that interacts with the user through the surface of an ordinary object, rather than through a monitor and keyboard. The Surface is a horizontal display on a tablelike form.

The Surface has a screen that can incorporate multiple touches and thus uses them to navigate multimedia content.

FEATURES
Direct Interaction: The ability to
"grab" digital information with hands - interacting with touch/gesture, not with a mouse or keyboard.

MultiTouch: The ability to recognize multiple

contacts at the same time, not just one (Ex. One finger, like with most touch screens), but dozens.

MultiUser: The Surfaces screen is horizontal,

allowing many people to come together around it and experience a collaborative, facetoface computing experience.

Object Recognition: Physical objects can be

placed on the Surfaces screen to trigger different types Of digital responses. (Ex. cameras & glasses of wine).

MICROSOFT SURFACE
Microsoft Surface is a touch-based graphical user interface. Using specialized hardware designed to replace the keyboard and mouse used in typical computing applications, Surface enables a level of interaction previously unattainable with conventional hardware. The system is composed of a horizontal touch screen under a coffee table-like surface, with

cameras mounted below to detect user interaction activities. Surface can simultaneously recognize dozens and dozens of movements such as touch, gestures and actual unique objects that have identification tags similar to bar codes. Surface computing-the technology behind.

Surface that comes to life for exploring, learning, sharing, creating, buying and much more.

Surface's main feature is the apparent simplicity with which common computing tasks can be performed. Most operations are performed without dialogs or wizards.

STRUCTURE AND WORKING

1) Screen: A diffuser turns the Surface's acrylic tabletop into a large horizontal "multitouch" screen, capable of processing multiple inputs from multiple users. The Surface can also recognize objects by their shapes or by reading coded "domino" tags. (2) Infrared: Surface's "machine vision" operates in the near-infrared spectrum, using an 850-nanometerwavelength LED light source aimed at the screen. When objects touch the tabletop, the light reflects back and is picked up by multiple infrared cameras. (3) CPU: A Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of RAM and a 256MB graphics card. Wireless communication with devices on the surface is handled using Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. (4) Projector: Microsoft's Surface uses the same DLP light engine found in many rear- projection HDTVs.

WORKING
Microsoft Surface uses cameras to sense objects, hand gestures and touch. This user input is then processed and displayed using rear projection.

Microsoft Surface uses this rear projection system which displays an image onto the underside of thin diffuser.

 Image processing system processes the camera images to detect fingers, custom tags and other objects such as paint brushes when touching the display.

The objects recognized with this system are reported to applications running in the computer so that they can react to object shapes, 2D tags, movement and touch.

APPLICATIONS

BIBLIOGRAPHY
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