@elm@vis.social
Professor in HCI & visualization at Aarhus University. FACM and FIEEE. Also: Husband, dad, dog dad, runner, Kung Fu artist, gamer. He/him.
What does immersive and ubiquitous analytics have in common with Dungeons & Dragons, Game of Thrones, and Avatar: The Last Airbender? Why, magic
of course! At the upcoming 2023 conference, Andrea Batch, Peter W. S. Butcher, @ritsos_p, and I will show how!
After all, what is an IA/UA system for Augmented Reality if not a full-fledged hard magic system where you gesture, speak words of command, and brandish a wand (read: phone) to conjure sparkly visuals out of thin air? 
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Datamancer is a wearable system that lets you control multiple screens with hand gestures. Point to select displays, then use bimanual gestures to manipulate data. No more fumbling with mice—just the wave of a hand. To appear at ACM CHI 2025 in Yokohama!
The work was led by @BiswaksenPat well as colleagues Marcel Borowski, @huaishup, and @clemens
Biswaksen is on the job market! You should hire him.
Blog post: https://niklaselmqvist.medium.com/wave-of-hand-command-of-screen-26c295c9e4e8
PDF: https://cs.au.dk/~elm/pdf/datamancer.pdf
Medium
Wave of Hand, Command of Screen - Niklas Elmqvist - MediumTechnology has always promised us magical interfaces — from Minority Report’s dramatic gestures to Iron Man’s holographic displays. Together with a team of collaborators at University of Maryland and…
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