Collaborative Displays: The Room-Sized Touch Screen Future

Wall-sized touch screens that respond to two people using all five fingers on both hands at once have arrived — and are enabling revolutionary new ways of collaborating with other people and interacting with computers.

Interviewee: Jeff Han, research scientist at NYU's Courant Institute and founder of Perceptive Pixel, which was later acquired by Microsoft.

2007

About These Documentaries

Upland created 20 short documentaries about topics in science, design, technology, and their intersections.

For each, we started by doing careful research and planning so that we could in most cases do all the interviewing and filming in a single day and edit to final cut within a week.

Most were funded in part by Technology Review and shown on the magazine's website alongside articles on the same topic. We selected topics with its editor-in-chief, but then did the rest of the work completely independently.

A few were funded in part by Children's Hospital Boston and used to raise funds for the hospital's medical research.