Full description: Touchless Gesture-Controlled Digital Object Viewer
Responsibilities: Project Manager, Graphic Designer
Year: From 2011

About the Enhancement: The software we have developed allowed the usage of the motion detection (Kinect) camera’s functions to be able to zoom in or out in the case of any two-dimensional digitized object, or, for example, in the case of a book (three-dimensional object) to be able to flip through the pages, in such a way that to select and bring into effect the desired -zoom in, out or flipping- function, the user of the device does not need to touch the screen (on which the image of the artifact is projected), but can simply control it by gesturing within the camera's viewing angle. Hereby, this system served as a solution to several problems.
On the one hand, the informational touch screens being in public spaces, such as an exhibition, are touched by a large number of people and this poses a significant hygienic risk. In addition, due to the Covid pandemic, this problem has become a major consideration in exhibition designing ever since. With this enhancement, the touch screens commonly used in exhibitions have become replaceable.
On the other hand, each side of a digitized artifact, such as the Bible of Vizsoly (1590), every page of it could be viewed in detail as opposed to if it was placed in a thick glass show-case appropriate to the artwork protection regulations, in which only two pages could have been viewed by the visitor, in this way though it was possible to scroll through the whole book.