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CHAI: computer human adapted interaction

Students develop rival to Microsoft's Surface

in The Australian, March 02, 2010
Mahesh Sharma

"A team at Sydney University wrote the Focus application, ... Sydney University PhD student Anthony Collins developed the application over the past couple of years for his thesis, in conjunction with PhD student Trent Apted and computer human-adapted interaction head Professor Judy Kay. ... Mr Collins said the focus was to build useful software to access the hardware. ... "We've made it hardware-independent. We're focusing on making useful software so people can actually buy these tables to do stuff with them." The software allows groups to use a surface computer to access and share files and information stored on a computer. These can be moved across to other computing devices. "We can definitely see something like this in the boardroom of the future, where people need to call on documents to show them to others," he said. "It's very general, it could be magazine editors pulling up stories to figure out what they're going to include in the magazines. "People work in groups at school and this will enable them to work at the same table." ...

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