{"id":170828,"date":"2011-10-17T02:36:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T02:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/surface-physics\/"},"modified":"2023-11-28T10:25:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T18:25:18","slug":"surface-physics","status":"publish","type":"msr-project","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/surface-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"Surface Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2016\/02\/surface-physics-2.jpg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" \/>Surface Physics explores new ways of supporting multi-touch and whole hand interaction on digital surfaces. Our aim is to bring the digital to \u2018life\u2019, allowing interactions with digital objects to simulate the physics of the real-world. We use an advanced physics-engine to add dynamics to digital objects, allowing them to behave more like real objects when we touch them, with notions of inertia, collisions, friction, restitution and so forth.<br \/>\n<span id=\"92842c56-9d7a-436f-b0a3-74b98eac1dd8\" class=\"ImageBlock fn\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"Image92842c56-9d7a-436f-b0a3-74b98eac1dd8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2016\/02\/surfacephysics-1.jpg\" \/><span id=\"ImageCaption92842c56-9d7a-436f-b0a3-74b98eac1dd8\" class=\"ImageCaptionCoreCss ImageCaption\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Related Links<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/group\/sensors-and-devices\/\">Sensors and Devices Group<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surface Physics explores new ways of supporting multi-touch and whole hand interaction on digital surfaces. Our aim is to bring the digital to \u2018life\u2019, allowing interactions with digital objects to simulate the physics of the real-world. We use an advanced physics-engine to add dynamics to digital objects, allowing them to behave more like real objects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"research-area":[13552,13554],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-impact-theme":[],"msr-pillar":[],"class_list":["post-170828","msr-project","type-msr-project","status-publish","hentry","msr-research-area-hardware-devices","msr-research-area-human-computer-interaction","msr-locale-en_us","msr-archive-status-active"],"msr_project_start":"2011-10-17","related-publications":[159685],"related-downloads":[],"related-videos":[],"related-groups":[],"related-events":[],"related-opportunities":[],"related-posts":[],"related-articles":[],"tab-content":[],"slides":[],"related-researchers":[{"type":"guest","display_name":"Otmar Hilliges","user_id":987651,"people_section":"Related people","alias":""},{"type":"guest","display_name":"Shahram Izadi","user_id":987654,"people_section":"Related people","alias":""},{"type":"guest","display_name":"Steve Hodges","user_id":987657,"people_section":"Related people","alias":""},{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Andy Wilson","user_id":31159,"people_section":"Related people","alias":"awilson"},{"type":"user_nicename","display_name":"Nicolas Villar","user_id":33139,"people_section":"Related people","alias":"nvillar"}],"msr_research_lab":[],"msr_impact_theme":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project\/170828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/msr-project"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project\/170828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987672,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-project\/170828\/revisions\/987672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"msr-research-area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-area?post=170828"},{"taxonomy":"msr-locale","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-locale?post=170828"},{"taxonomy":"msr-impact-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-impact-theme?post=170828"},{"taxonomy":"msr-pillar","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/msr-pillar?post=170828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}