Swyp: Gesture transmission from concept to reality

How to make data transmission between devices more intuitive and convenient? Ishac Bertan, an interactive designer user, released a video “Space-Aware Device” in Vimeo a few weeks ago, describing his vision for data transfer. His idea is that when two devices are close together, there will be a half-moon transfer space on the edge of their screen. You can grab content from the device, such as web pages, pictures, music, etc., by dragging it to the device. Transfer the space, then the file will be transferred directly to another device and opened with the app on the device.

Ishac Bertan was inspired by Sifteo Cubes. We have reported this interesting device in the sample. Sifteo Cubes are small cubes with sensors that, when placed close together, can be interactively displayed for fun little games. This intuitive interaction related to spatial perception has inspired Ishac.

This is a very interesting idea, but it will obviously have a lot of difficulty in realizing it. Not only does it involve operating systems and wireless protocols, but it also involves interoperability issues across different platforms, but from the current trend, major companies are willing to close their systems, making this intuitive operation difficult to achieve. Interestingly, he used the iPhone and Macbook Pro as demos in the demo, and used gestures on MBP, and we know that the Macbook Pro obviously has no touchscreen, so the iPad may be a more suitable item.

In a letter to the Co.Design website, Ishac believes that this is not difficult to achieve.

“Sifteo cubes use IrDA transceivers to detect other devices,” he said. “Similar things can be added to future devices to achieve accessible contacts. As far as I mention the interaction, there is no need for the entire border of the device. Perception, as long as there is a specific location on the device that recognizes each other, it enables smooth and intuitive interaction."

After the article on Co.Design was released, they quickly received an email. The subject of the email is "It already exists!"

It turns out that two researchers at the MIT Media Lab have developed an open source software that implements the gesture transfer described by Ishac without adding any hardware. This software is called Swyp.

Their demo uses the iPhone and iPad. The device is not jailbroken, or the IrDA transceiver is added, using only the existing features of the device. Swyp collects the approximate location of the phone and iPad, as well as account information (Facebook/Gmail) and then links it to realistic gestures. By swiping gestures, you can transfer files between devices.

For this software, Ishac Bertran thinks it's smart, and also points out that the process of interaction is not perfect due to the lack of sensing devices. When the two devices change position, they lose contact. If the location sensor is installed, this problem will not occur.

Swyp can be used on iOS and LuminAR (smart lamps developed by MIT Labs), but still cannot be downloaded as an app. In response, lab researchers say they want developers to be able to participate in this open source project or add Swyp functionality to their own applications. At the same time, they are also developing a website to enable any Internet-connected device to use Swyp and intend to support Kinect devices in the future.

Swyp demonstrates that human-computer interaction is moving in a more intuitive direction. It gives the file a human interface. The Co.Design website believes that Swyp makes the mysterious computing process of sharing data look and feel... giving it a touchable, intuitive interface. As Swyp developers say, it enables users to "understand the concept of communication between devices".

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