SandCanvas

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Check out the SandCanvas application on the Apple App Store!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sandcanvas/id594400205

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The video that won the Golden Mouse Award in Video Showcase CHI 2011 for Best Design.

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SandCanvas is appearing in SIGGRAPH 2011

SandCanvas is appearing in SIGGRAPH 2011 in couple of sessions, as SIGGRAPH Dailies and SIGGRAPH Studio talks.

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Winner of Best Design at CHI 2011 Video Showcase

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SandCanvas gets "Honorable Mention" award in ACM SIGCHI 2011

We are very proud to share that we just received mail from "Best of CHI" committee that SandCanvas is awarded Honorable Mention Award in ACM SIGCHI 2011. Here is a few lines from the committee - 

"Congratulations!  On behalf of SIGCHI and the CHI 2011 Committee, we would like to formally notify you that your accepted Paper has received an  "Honorable Mention" award.  The CHI 2011 Papers and Notes Committee selected only the top 5% of Papers and Notes submissions to receive the "Honorable Mention” designation.  Quite an achievement. ........."

We would like to take this opportunity to thank our colleagues in NUS HCI Lab and collaborators for their tremendous support. The presentation schedule of SandCanvas in CHI can be found here.

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SandCanvas v1.0: A Multi-touch Art Medium Inspired by Sand Animation

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SandCanvas: A Multi-touch Art Medium Inspired by Sand Animation

Sand animation is a performance art technique in which an artist tells stories by creating animated images with sand. Inspired by this medium, we have developed a new multi-touch digital artistic medium named SandCanvas that simplifies the creation of sand animations. SandCanvas also goes beyond traditional sand animation with tools for mixing sand animation with video and replicating recorded free-form hand gestures.

SandCanvas was developed in NUS HCI Lab under the supervision of Dr. Shengdong Zhao, along with our collaborators Dr. Richard Davis and Dr. Low Kok Lim. This research was supported by National University of Singapore Academic Research Fund R-252-000-375-133.

SandCanvas is going to be showcased in CHI special video session, in Vancouver 2011. Stay tuned in the following youtube channel for more upcoming works. :)

www.youtube.com/touchcanvas  

Publications:

Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Kien-Chuan Chua,Shengdong Zhao, Richard C. Davis, Kok-Lim Low. ACM SIGCHI 2011- to appear.SandCanvas: A Multi-touch Art Medium Inspired by Sand Animation (10 pages)

Patent:

United States Patent - Application No - 61/434, 763, Multi-touch art medium for simulating Sand Animation (pending)