I will be giving a live demo about experimental use of LEAP to control hydrodynamic and salinity transport models during AGU (American Geoscience Union) conference. (Moscone Center, San Francisco, Wed, 11 dec). The session is called "Emerging Technologies in Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI)".
The same demo app will be presented at my company booth at the AGU (next to NASA, Google).
Here is a short abstract:
TITLE: Use of natural user interfaces in water simulations
AUTHORS (FIRST NAME, LAST NAME): Gennadii Donchyts1, Fedor Baart1, Arthur van Dam1, Bert Jagers1
INSTITUTIONS (ALL): 1. Deltares, Delft, Netherlands.
ABSTRACT BODY: Conventional graphical user interfaces, used to edit input and present results of earth science models, have seen little innovation for the past two decades. In most cases model data is presented and edited using 2D projections even when working with 3D data.
The emergence of 3D motion sensing technologies, such as Microsoft Kinect and LEAP Motion, opens new possibilities for user interaction by adding more degrees of freedom compared to a classical way using mouse and keyboard.
Here we investigate how interaction with hydrodynamic numerical models can be improved using these new technologies. Our research hypothesis (H1) states that properly designed 3D graphical user interface paired with the 3D motion sensor can significantly reduce the time required to setup and use numerical models.
In this work we have used a LEAP motion controller combined with a shallow water flow model engine D-Flow Flexible Mesh.
Essentially it is recap of what was recorded in my video: http://youtu.be/kzFBZ8KaWF4