Thomas Psik

Tangible Image Query (2004)

Kresimir Matkovic, Thomas Psik, Ina Wagner

This paper introduces a tangible user interface for browsing and retrieving images from an image database. The basis for the query to the image database is a color layout sketch, which is used by the...

The 3D Wunderkammer - An Indexing by Placing Approach to the Image Storage and Retrieval (2003)

Kre Simir Matkovi C, Johannes Siglaer, Martin Kompast, Thomas Psik, Ina Wagner

The explosion of storage media size, and spreading of the internet in the last decade resulted in a huge amount of images and multimedia material an average user has to deal with. Traditional use of...

The Invisible Person - Advanced Interaction Using an Embedded Interface (2002)

Thomas Psik, Reinhard Sainitzer, Paolo Petta

In this paper we describe an advanced user interface enabling even playing games in an immersive virtual environment. There are no common input devices, users presence in the environment, movements,...

Towards Engaging Full-Body Interaction (2000)

Paolo Petta, Alexander Staller, Stephan Mantler, Zsolt Szalavri, Thomas Psik, Michael Gervautz

. In order to avoid these problems and also to mitigate the effect of the inevitable limitations of systems dependent on purely vision-based user tracking (e.g. the unreliable recognition of postures...