The Tai-Chi FP6 IST project lead by the MEC with Clausthal University of Technology as a partner has won the Best Exhibit prize at the IST 2006 Event held in Helsinki, Finland

Tai-Chi “Tangible Acoustic Interfaces for Computer Human Interaction” aims to develop acoustics-based remote sensing technology which can be adapted to virtually any physical object to create tangible interfaces, allowing the user to communicate freely with a computer, an interactive system or the cyber-world by means of an arbitrary object from the environment. The methods for contact point localisation developed in Tai-Chi utilise the location-signature embedded in the acoustic wave patterns caused by contact, as well as triangulation and acoustic holography.

Tai-Chi homepage http://www.taichi.cf.ac.uk/

IST 2006 homepage http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/istevent/2006/index_en.htm




Dr Ming Yang, Tai-Chi Project Manager with the Grand Prize Award.