Surface Interactive and Tracking System Using Low Cost Infrared Technology

Abstract

Although many surface computing related products exist today, there high cost leaves such a technology out of reach of many regular users. As there is an increasing popularity on this area, user performance over surface computing has been a one of the major research eld for the past number of years. Many researchers in industry and the academic eld paid attention to that area with the commercial sector providing a large number of applications related to surface computer systems. This research focuses on developing a low cost surface interactive system by using optical tracking, and conducts a human performance analysis on surface computing by using proposed system. Back end of the proposed system is implemented by optical motion tracking technology. Although the optical tracking has the highest accuracy rate over the motion tracking technologies, it takes a heavy cost to implement such a kind of technology in action. Therefore over the past number of years there is an increased interest of developing a low cost optical tracking system. In parallel to the surface computing area, this research will also focuses on developing a low cost tracking system with higher accuracy and lowered latency.