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Faculty Achievements
Dr. Jihad and his project team received U.S. Patent award.
Project Name
: PLUG AND PLAY TANGIBLE USER INTERFACE SYSTEM
Project Abstract:
Systems and methods are provided for a dynamic user interface for
interacting with computer applications by a user physically manipulating
interactive floor tiles. The interactive floor tiles may be networked, and may use
a communication bus 204 within the network for communicating the connection
status of tiles in the network and/or any user input received by one or more tiles
in the network. The tile network module may communicate data to a computer
via a data collection module. The data collection module may be internal or
external to the computer, and may be used to translate data from one
communication format to another, for example, from RS485 framework to
RS232 framework. The interactive floor tiles may be configured into various
shapes at any time by a user, and the changes to the tiles may be mapped to the
computer application screen in real-time.
Project LeadPI:
Prof. Jihad Mohamad ALJA’AM)
PIs:
Prof. Abdulmotaleb El Saddik – Canada,
PI:
Ali Jaoua,
PI:
Moutaz Saleh
Research Assistants:
Basim Hafidh; Hussein Al Osman; ; Ali Karime; Amal
Dandashi
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