SiiCS -
Surface Independent Interactive Computer System
SiiCS
is a wearable and portable device that can convert any surface into an
interactive touch screen and users can interact using natural finger
gestures. SiiCS can recognize many objects from the real world and
extract related information from the internet and either display it on
the object itself or speak it out to the user in case of Visually
impaired people. SiiCS derives its motivation from MIT Sixth sense
technology, Microsoft surface and Nintendo Wii. The difference here is
that SiiCS is dedicated to Visually impaired people and handicapped
people apart from regular users.SiiCS represents the intersection of the
Computer Science most significant concepts like Human Computer
Interaction, Surface independent computing, Machine Vision & Object
detection, Gestural computing and Text to speech systems. SiiCS is
winner of Microsoft Imagine Cup Software Design Accessibility Innovation
Award 2010 and is still in the pre beta stage.
What it is :-
- Virtual world of internet! Extract real time information from the
web based on the object detected and project it on the object itself. 2.
Physical World! Detect all type of real world physical objects and
assist a user to know the object’s description and make optimal
decisions. 3. Professional World! Operate computer screen, give
presentations, do drawing, check e-mail, read SMS etc. on any surface.
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- SIICS draw its innovation from the concepts like “ The Sixth Sense”
developed by MIT Media Lab, “ Microsoft Surface” developed by Microsoft
Research and “Nintendo Wii” by Nintendo and proposes an inside view
of the future of human computer interaction and surface independent
touch interactive technologies. SIICS aims at people with disabilities
such as low vision, color blindness, blindness, deafness, dumbness and
people with total physical disability apart from various other
possibilities.
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- People with disabilities such as
low vision, color blindness, blindness, deafness, dumbness and people
with total physical disability Students, teachers, scholars and
educationists Professionals and Business man to carry out meetings,
read emails, power point slide shows on any surface etc. Home users
while shopping, checking emails etc. “ The cost of the device is
estimated to be about Rs. 15000/. This includes the cost of the hardware
i.e. projector and the web camera while I have kept the software free
of cost for the end users.”
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- Portable, scalable and wearable
device Can convert any surface into an interactive touch screen Users
can interact with real time data and information using natural finger
gestures. Can detect real world objects and project their information
from the web onto their surface such as bing search results, wikipedia
definition, its amazon rating and popularity etc. Can operate computer
screen using a finger in the air, users can draw on any surface, zoom in
zoom out things etc. Supports multi user interaction at the same time.
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- Detection of different real world objects and projection of their
related information from the web onto their surface such as Bing search
results, Wikipedia definition, Amazon rating and popularity etc.
Project computer screen on any surface and operate computer mouse using a
finger in the air Users can draw on any surface, zoom in/ zoom out/
rotate images on any surface etc. all using natural finger gestures
Detection of color of various objects and convey it to user Supports
multi user interaction
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- “ THE IMAGE REPRESENTS CONTROL OF MOUSE POINTER THROUGH THE SIICS DEVICE”
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- “ DETECTION OF AN INHALER AND DISPLAYING ITS DESCRIPTION FROM BING”
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- “ DETECTION OF COLOR OF ANY OBJECT (CURRENTLY SUPPORTS BASIC COLORS ONLY)”
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- “ THE IMAGE SHOWS THE ACTUAL SCREENSHOT OF THE SCREEN IN THE SIICS
SOFTWARE DISPLAYING AN EXAMPLE OF FREEHAND DRAWING IN 2 DIFFERENT COLORS
USING 2 DIFFERENT FINGER CAPS”
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- “ THE IMAGE SHOWS THE ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPH SOF SIICS WITH ZOOM IN/ZOOM OUT/IMAGE ROTATION DEMO ON A WALL”
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- Read SMS, E-mails and use applications on any surface Play computer
games using natural gestures Use the virtual earth and maps application
on any surface with zoom in/zoom out features Handwriting recognition
that allow the users to type in the air any character while being
assisted by the text to speech system Assist the user to recognize
specific products(listed in the SIICS database of products) such as
medicines, spectacles, ear phones etc. and detect human faces to assist
them in daily life Recognize dumb finger language and convert it to
speech Wireless connection with mobile devices for computation and
communication
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- SiiCS is definitely a unique approach towards
simplifying real world interactions with computers and presenting the
user the right kind of information at right time and at a place where he
wants it. SiiCS can be extremely helpful to disabled in a way that it
can assist them in doing daily tasks in an easy and simplified manner
such as object detection and getting information, color detection, human
detection (face), typing in the air etc. SiiCS can be very useful to
any kind of user who wants portable computing along with natural
interaction with the computers. SiiCS can be deployed with different
types of virtual and gaming environments as means of natural human
computer interaction device. SiiCS can simplify and fasten everyday
computer and non computer tasks and can assist a user to make right and
optimal decisions in real time.
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- SiiCS presents an insight
view of future of Human computer interaction, Natural gesture computing
and surface independent computing. The possibilities to deploy in real
life are endless. Similar example can be the wide acceptance of Nintendo
Wii technology. SiiCS device is built from existing hardware and costs
around Rs. 15000/. The device can be built under Rs. 8000/. with low end
portable projectors which is pretty good for Indian market. The major
release will support windows mobile phone with wireless connectivity as a
computational and communicational device easing out a lot of things (As
of now, since SiiCS is still in pre beta phase, so one need to carry
his/her laptop to use this device on the go). The viability of SiiCS to
be deployed in real life is very high because the device is cheap and
can be really helpful to different people with different needs and
requirements and can be used to develop many different types of
innovative applications based on SiiCS.
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