Sile O'Modhrain

Sile O'Modhrain

Professor of Performing Arts Technology and Professor of Information at the University of Michigan

Topographic Torch

Topographic Torch is a handheld digital mapping tool featuring a novel egocentric interaction model enabling people to physically point at objects of interest in the world and automatically see those objects on a digital map. In this way the tool places people in an egocentric frame of reference with respect to the map and, we believe, may enhance people’s ability to understand the relationships between where they are in the world and where other objects of interest are in relation to them.

Handheld device displaying a street map

  • Bennett, M. and O’Modhrain, S., (2006) “Here Or There Is Where? Haptic Egocentric Interaction With Topographic Torch”. In Proceedings of the Workshop titled “What is the Next Generation of Human-Computer Interaction?” CHI 2006, Montreal, Canada, April 2006

People:

  • Mike Bennett
  • Sile O’Modhrain