Communications of the ACM
Research Archive
The Research archive provides access to all Research articles published in past issues of Communications of the ACM.
December 2009
From Communications of the ACM
ThinSight: A Thin Form-Factor Interactive Surface Technology
ThinSight is a thin form-factor interactive surface technology based on optical sensors embedded inside a regular LCD. These augment the display with the ability to sense a variety of objects near the surface, including fingertips…
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Technical Perspective: Design Tools For the Rest of Us
There are many who believe we are on the verge of the biggest change in the way products are made since the Industrial Revolution. This is a revolution where individuals will…
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Technical Perspective: A Graphical Sense of Touch
One of the major innovations in computing was the invention of the graphical user interface at MIT, SRI, and Xerox PARC. The combination of computer graphics hardware with a…
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Designing Plush Toys With a Computer
We introduce Plushie, an interactive system that allows nonprofessional users to design their own original plush toys. We successfully demonstrated that nonprofessional users could design plush toys or balloon easily using Plushie…