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Fans of the JazzMutant Lemur Touch-Screen Control Surface will want to take a look at this video of multi-touch interaction experiments on a large-screen monitor.

It is, how do you say?, the sexy.

The video comes from Jeff Han, a consultant at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences’ Department of Computer Science.

According to Han, ” My research interests have historically been real-time computer graphics and real-time computer vision, but I’ve taken on a more recent focus on human-computer interfaces and machine learning.”

From Han’s site:

“We’ve been experimenting with a wide variety of application scenarios and interaction modalities that utilize multi-touch input information. These go far beyond the “poking” actions you get with a typical touchscreen, or the gross gesturing found in video-based interactive interfaces. It is a rich area for research, and we are extremely excited by its potential for advances in efficiency, usability, and intuitiveness. It’s also just so much fun!”

“Our technique is force-sensitive, and provides unprecedented resolution and scalability, allowing us to create sophisticated multi-point widgets for applications large enough to accomodate both hands and multiple users.”

While the project is not specifically music-related, if you’ve seen the Lemur in action, you can image the possibilities of a touch-screen interface like this!

While you’re at Han’s site, don’t miss the MoCap Sensor Fusion, shown right, which looks mildly naughty, but augments motion capture with the capture of other physiometric data, such as breathing; the Holodust, a true open-air volumetric display; and lots of other interesting human interface experiments.