Content Development For Multi-touch Solution

Kreateevee Sdn Bhd

Development of Creative Content for Multi-Touch Solutions

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About Kreateevee    

Kreateevee started in 2003 Awarded MSC status in 2005 Winner of Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2008 Customer experience specialist in digital and interactive medium.   

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Digital signage & kiosks Digital content Directional audio

Clients: Telcos and banks

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Latest development 

Since the introduction of iPhone and its multi-touch capabilities, Kreateevee experimented with making affordable multi-touch technology available beyond mobile devices, specifically for large-format displays

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We experimented with a hosts of different hardware, software, applications and finally ended up with a fusion of selected open source tools, our proprietary software and modules

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Our first commercially-viable product with this technology is simply known as the “Multi-Touch table” 3

Latest development - Multi-Touch Table

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How it works? 

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Infrared light is shined from below the touch surface When an object touches the surface it reflects more light than objects in the background; the extra light is sensed by a camera Depending on the software, this method can also detect hover and objects placed on the surface.

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How it works? 

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What the camera sees - a bunch of brightly lit “blobs”

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Software tracker cleans up the image to produce a list of points in (x, y) coordinates to be passed to the application (Creative Content)

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Is Multi-Touch the future of interaction? 

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The pace of development has been incredible over the past year, we see it working well with the RIGHT content Multi-touch interactivity opens up new dimensions and possibilities for human-computer interaction

Source: eetimes.com 7

Content Development 

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Entirely dependant on the multi-touch hardware & software tracker Kreateevee’s Multi-touch table uses content developed in Adobe Flash/Actionscript 3 with multi-touch event handlers to detect interaction Existing Adobe Flash/AS3-based content can be adapted for multi-touch / multi-user Development time of new application / games with our product will be significantly reduced with the vast availability of Adobe Flash-based content & knowledge workers

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Content Development – Brief code examples 

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With Kreateevee’s Multi-Touch table, content development in Flash requires several minor changes The package flash.events has been extended with a ‘TouchHandler’ event For capturing mouse actions the initialization routine would look similar to this:-

For multi-touch events, it will now look like this:-

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Content Development – Brief code examples 

A TouchEvent is thereafter processed almost similarly to a MouseEvent Mouse events would normally be handled like this:-

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Multi-touch events would handled like this:-

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With multi-touch, two or more touch points will trigger the same event handler twice or more and it is up to the flash application to handle and determine what actions should be performed with these touch points

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Content Development – Samples

Musical instrument (keyboard)

Virtual pond

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Mapping application

Games (Football)

Content Development – Samples

Games (TouchGrind)

Multi-user information wall

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Photo manipulation

Paint / coloring book

Usage of Multi-Touch content 

Content for large format multi-touch displays can apply to many industries, to name a few:      

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Telecommunication Finance Entertainment Museums Advertising Gaming Military

Such content provides for a good centerpiece for showcase in exhibitions to provide the “wow” factor

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Complementary Technologies    

Bluetooth interactivity Proximity sensors / user tracking Object / marker recognition RFID interactivity

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What we’ve discussed?    

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Brief about Kreateevee Multi-Touch technology for large format displays Technology brief (How does it work?) ; hardware & software Content development for multi-touch ; market predictions, brief code examples & sample content Usage of multi-touch content Complementary technologies

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How can you be involved? 

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Multi-Touch technology for large format displays is a highly untapped market with majority of content players competing in creating content for multi-touch mobile devices Kreateevee looking for creative companies as strategic partners to build compelling content for this platform Interested, do leave us your contact or email us at: [email protected] Thank you!

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