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Toolglass and magic lenses: The see-through interface

by Eric A. Bier, Maureen C. Stone, Ken Pier, William Buxton, Tony D. Derose , 1993
"... Toolglass ™ widgets are new user interface tools that can appear, as though on a transparent sheet of glass, between an application and a traditional cursor. They can be positioned with one hand while the other positions the cursor. The widgets provide a rich and concise vocabulary for operating on ..."
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on application objects. These widgets may incorporate visual filters, called Magic Lens™ filters, that modify the presentation of application objects to reveal hidden information, to enhance data of interest, or to suppress distracting information. Together, these tools form a see-through interface that offers

The Magic Wand

by Jan Ciger, Mario Gutierrez, Frederic Vexo, Daniel Thalmann , 2003
"... We want to present a multimodal user interface for interaction with the virtual environment back--projected on the large projection screen. We use the interaction metaphor of a "spell--casting" wizard (the user) using a "magic wand" to interact with the VR environment and to comp ..."
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We want to present a multimodal user interface for interaction with the virtual environment back--projected on the large projection screen. We use the interaction metaphor of a "spell--casting" wizard (the user) using a "magic wand" to interact with the VR environment

"GrabCut” -- interactive foreground extraction using iterated graph cuts

by Carsten Rother, Vladimir Kolmogorov, Andrew Blake - ACM TRANS. GRAPH , 2004
"... The problem of efficient, interactive foreground/background segmentation in still images is of great practical importance in image editing. Classical image segmentation tools use either texture (colour) information, e.g. Magic Wand, or edge (contrast) information, e.g. Intelligent Scissors. Recently ..."
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The problem of efficient, interactive foreground/background segmentation in still images is of great practical importance in image editing. Classical image segmentation tools use either texture (colour) information, e.g. Magic Wand, or edge (contrast) information, e.g. Intelligent Scissors

Magic wand and enigma of the sphinx

by Tolga Abacı, Rachel de Bondeli, Jan Ciger, Mireille Clavien, Fatih Erol, Mario Gutierrez, Stephanie Noverraz, Olivier Renault, Frederic Vexo, Daniel Thalmann - COMPUTERS & GRAPHICS , 2004
"... This paper presents an evaluation of the benefits and user acceptance of a multimodal interface in which the user interacts with a game-like interactive virtual reality application ‘‘The Enigma of the Sphinx’’. The interface consists of a large projection screen as the main display, a ‘‘magic wand’’ ..."
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This paper presents an evaluation of the benefits and user acceptance of a multimodal interface in which the user interacts with a game-like interactive virtual reality application ‘‘The Enigma of the Sphinx’’. The interface consists of a large projection screen as the main display, a ‘‘magic wand

Surgeon’s Magic Wand: A Screen Pointing Interactive Method

by Naren Vira Professor, Shaleen Vira Student
"... Abstract: A novel, non-touch, screen pointing “magic wand ” interface is proposed for surgeon’s use in an environment requiring simultaneous display of several patients ’ data over a continuous period of time. The magic wand or passive pointing device does not have any active energy source within it ..."
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Abstract: A novel, non-touch, screen pointing “magic wand ” interface is proposed for surgeon’s use in an environment requiring simultaneous display of several patients ’ data over a continuous period of time. The magic wand or passive pointing device does not have any active energy source within

Measuring and Reducing Energy Consumption of Network Interfaces in Hand-Held Devices

by Mark Stemm, Randy H. Katz , 1997
"... Next generation hand-held devices must provide seamless connectivity while obeying stringent power and size constrains. In this paper we examine this issue from the point of view of the Network Interface (NI). We measure the power usage of two PDAs, the Apple Newton Messagepad and Sony Magic Link, a ..."
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Next generation hand-held devices must provide seamless connectivity while obeying stringent power and size constrains. In this paper we examine this issue from the point of view of the Network Interface (NI). We measure the power usage of two PDAs, the Apple Newton Messagepad and Sony Magic Link

The Magic Wand

by Idar Douglas Hillgaar, Idar Douglas Hillgaar, Idar Douglas Hillgaar , 2006
"... I, the undersigned, declare that this work has not previously been submitted to this or any other University, and that unless otherwise stated, it is entirely my own work. ..."
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I, the undersigned, declare that this work has not previously been submitted to this or any other University, and that unless otherwise stated, it is entirely my own work.

The Stanford FLASH multiprocessor

by Jeffrey Kuskin, David Ofelt, Mark Heinrich, John Heinlein, Richard Simoni, Kourosh Gharachorloo, John Chapin, David Nakahira, Joel Baxter, Mark Horowitz, Anoop Gupta, Mendel Rosenblum, John Hennessy - In Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Computer Architecture , 1994
"... The FLASH multiprocessor efficiently integrates support for cache-coherent shared memory and high-performance message passing, while minimizing both hardware and software overhead. Each node in FLASH contains a microprocessor, a portion of the machine’s global memory, a port to the interconnection n ..."
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network, an I/O interface, and a custom node controller called MAGIC. The MAGIC chip handles all communication both within the node and among nodes, using hardwired data paths for efficient data movement and a programmable processor optimized for executing protocol operations. The use of the protocol

Wands are Magic: a comparison of devices used in 3D pointing interfaces

by Martin Henschke, Tom Gedeon, Richard Jones, Sabrina Caldwell, Dingyun Zhu
"... Abstract. In our pilot study with 12 participants, we compared three interfaces, 3D mouse, glove and wand in a 3D naturalistic environment. The latter two were controlled by the same absolute pointing method and so are essentially identical except for the selection mechanism, grasp action versus but ..."
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Abstract. In our pilot study with 12 participants, we compared three interfaces, 3D mouse, glove and wand in a 3D naturalistic environment. The latter two were controlled by the same absolute pointing method and so are essentially identical except for the selection mechanism, grasp action versus

Exploring the Magic of WAND

by Matthias Petri
"... Web search services process thousands of queries per second, and filter their answers from collections containing very large amounts of data. Fast response to queries is a critical service expectation. The well-known WAND processing strategy is one way of reducing the amount of computation necessary ..."
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Web search services process thousands of queries per second, and filter their answers from collections containing very large amounts of data. Fast response to queries is a critical service expectation. The well-known WAND processing strategy is one way of reducing the amount of computation
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