Transcript K-news - American University of Beirut

K - News
By: Elie Ain Malak
Nour Assi
Vasken Sarkis
Georges Wakim
Background
• A modern newspaper kiosk that takes the simple
notion of reading a newspaper into a higher and
more interactive level.
• This Kinect based application is user friendly. It
provides a new experience that is controlled by the
users’ gestures.
• The gestures allow you to flip through pages, issues,
“star” the current issue, get help, zoom in/out and
scroll while zoomed.
Technology Used
• Kinect, the Xbox 360 controller is newly used for
PC. It contains three sensors: Video, Depth and
Audio.
• Kinect SDK was released by Microsoft for PC use.
• The combination between the Kinect Skeleton
frame, the Depth frame, along with the SDK were
the tools that facilitated the implementation of KNews presented as C# classes in Visual Studio.
Features
• K-News reads the body gestures of the user
and translates it into software commands.
These commands change the state of the
display.
• To implement each of the 10 gestures, the
position of the detected joints were recorded
at different time intervals.