The document summarizes 4 current projects:
1. The Simulcast Computer which accepts video from a presenter's laptop and displays it on a touchscreen while allowing annotations.
2. A student web interface for collaborative note-taking which highlights important parts and common terms from all student notes.
3. Recorded lectures from the Simulcast Computer that students can access and add their own notes to.
4. A project to transfer touchscreen controls to a Microsoft Keyboard for presentation at a conference using the Vala programming language.
1. Current Projects Overview
1. The Simulcast Computer
accepts video output from a
presenter’s laptop and then
displays the output on a touch
screen.
2. The presenter is allowed to (SMART Classroom – FA10)
make pen annotations onto
the screen, which are then Prototype team: James McCloskey, Kevin
sent to the projector.
Crossan, Alric Althoff, Daniel Park
3. The slides from the presenter, Data Analytics team: Jawon Lee, Jerad Acosta,
the annotations and the audio
are recorded as a video and Henry Phuong, Taylor Scott
The student web interface allows collaborative note-taking, in can be uploaded to our web Web Dev team: Bryan Cuevas, Raymond Chen,
system.
which information is pulled from the combined set of notes from Aaron Dubie, Ben Ng
all students to highlight the most important parts of the lecture,
as well as the most common terms and key words. 4. Students can access the
recorded lectures on our web TA: Max Twogood
system and add their own Advisor: Ryan Kastner
notes to that lecture. With support from:
GStreamer Pipeline
User Interface Software & Technology
Conference, Oct. 2 – 7, New York
Goal of UIST project: Transfer the User
Interface controls from the touch-
screen to the Microsoft Keyboard.
Using Vala Programming Language
Allows for rapid development and design
Uses mature open-source libraries
Solid base for sane development platform
Mirrors familiar UNIX commands, philosophies
High-level (Java, C#), but compiles to machine code for high-
performance
Left: Shows the old UI + Laptop Right: Shows the captured video output Work in Progress UI