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Making The Game – Part 9: Benefits of natural input options using practical examples

Posted on Sunday, May 13th, 2012

As mentioned before applications, designed for natural interaction with the user, differ in many aspects from traditional GUI applications. The advantages, resulting from the intuitive use of NUI-Apps, are not restricted only to the domestic or functional use in offices and conference rooms.   Thus, multi-touch applications are predestined to be used in self-service area. [...]

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The Unofficial Google Text-To-Speech API

Posted on Monday, May 7th, 2012

The fact that Googles Translation-Application translate.google.com offers the possibility to readout an inserted text (TTS text to speech), is nothing new. The specialty, however, are the possibilities that arise through this feature.   The data for the audio output is in fact called by a simple HTTP GET (REST) ​​request:   http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=de&q=text     By [...]

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Making The Game – Part 8: Comparison of NUI <=> GUI

Posted on Sunday, April 29th, 2012

In the comments of some articles on natural user interfaces you can read that NUIs are just graphical user interfaces without any differences. For a some simple definitions of a GUI, like the one from Wikipedia: “A graphical user interface is a software component that allows the users of a computer to interact with the [...]

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Call me Master of the Universe… or another!


Now it’s official and I can call myself a Master of Science (M. Sc.). After my outstanding performance in my master’s thesis (jepp, 1.0 … what else?) I allow myself to relax a little and do a little holiday. Although standing in my testimony that I would have taken four semesters (the 4th, which begins [...]

CeBIT 2012 – Recap


I’m a little late with my CeBIT report because I had a lot to do with my thesis and some other projects …simply too much. But better late than never.   As mentioned before, I had the honor to present my master thesis and another project I worked in (Smart Home Control) at the CeBIT [...]

Long time no see


Through a lot of tasks since December – CeBIT, lectures, my master’s thesis and other projects – I was not able to post anything as initially promised. However, since I finished my thesis I’ll make up a little more time to describe step by step the development of my program and discuss interesting and important [...]

(Deutsch) Natural User Interface Vortrag am 05.12.2011 in Darmstadt


Sorry, this entry is only available in Deutsch.

QR-Code – Facebook Fanpage – Google+


Sometimes you find pretty amusing things while playing with technology. And so it happened that in the QR code of the link to my Making the Game Category looked a bit like Wally from “Where is Wally?”. And so I proudly present you my “Making the Game – Where is Wally”-QR-Code     Furthermore, I [...]