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HIIT’s new CityWall video draws over 20’000 viewers

Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT's new video on the 3D CityWall multi-touch display has drawn over 250 000 viewers. Several international IT media have embedded the YouTube video on their website.

The video has attracted viewers particularly in the USA, Russia, Finland, South korea and Brazil.

CityWall video was released on HIIT's new YouTube channel HIITTV. HIITTV is a new media to tell globally on the future IT research in HIIT.

Welcome to the Department Day in Kumpula on Friday 17 Oct

Tue, 14.10.2008

14 Oct 08 - Helsinki University of Computer Science invites everybody in HIIT to the Department Day.

Place: Kumpula, Exactum
Time: Friday, 17 October at 13-16

The programme has speeches, games and the research groups and projects will be introducing themselves. The detailed schedule is available at
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/events/departmentday2008

HIIT kehitti kolmiulotteisesti toimivan monikosketusnäytön

HIIT launched a 3D version of multi-touch display CityWall

Thu, 09.10.2008

10 Oct 2008 - Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT has launched a new, 3D version of CityWall. CityWall is a large multi-touch display that supports large numbers of people interacting by touch on the display simultaneously. CityWall's widget framework built on top of the computer vision component tracks gestures and maps them to 2D/3D graphics engine interaction tasks.

HIIT launched a 3D version of multi-touch display CityWall

10 Oct 08 - Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT has launched a new, 3D version of CityWall. CityWall is a large multi-touch display that supports large numbers of people interacting by touch on the display simultaneously.

"The display is well suited for interactive communication in public spaces. Anyone can send photos, comments and watch videos on the display and interact with each other, as well as with other content on the display by using SMS and Flickr”, tells Ann Morrison, Researcher and Project Leader, HIIT.

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