This Bootcamp aims to share the knowledge and experience of developers of multi-touch surfaces with the wider tabletop and interactive surface community.

Multi-touch interaction with computationally enhanced surfaces has received considerable attention in the last few years. The rediscovery of diffused illumination and frustrated total-internal reflection principles, which allow for building such surfaces at low cost, has pushed the development of multi-touch applications forward. Although this and other related techniques have been presented in an academic setting, the steps involved in building a high quality multi-touch enabled surface, on a software and hardware level, are not trivial.

By practically demonstrating the steps involved in creating these interactive surfaces the workshop aims to encourage the exploration of multi-touch by researchers who may not have considered self-construction of such hardware viable.

Topics covered:
* Infrared Illumination
* Silicone & Projection surfaces
* Cameras, Optics, Filters & Projectors
* Software
* Hardware Integration
* Community & Network

Organizers
* Johannes Schöning (main contact)
* Peter Brandl
* Florian Daiber
* Florian Echtler
* Otmar Hilliges
* Jonathan Hook
* Markus Löchtefeld
* Laurence Muller
* Nima Motamedi
* Tim Roth
* Ulrich von Zadow

Date: October 1 2008 (14:00 to 17:00 hrs),
Venue: The bootcamp will be co-located with Tabletops and Interactive Surfaces at Park Hotel Amsterdam (http://www.parkhotel.nl/).
Capacity: To keep the bootcamp interactive and manageable, the number of attendees will be restricted to the first 50 or 70 participants.

Participation: The bootcamp is free for all participants of the IEEE Tabletops and Interactive Surfaces workshop. You can register your interest in this bootcamp by registering through the website of the workshop. Please visit www.ieeetabletop.org
for registration details (registration will open around 1st August 2008).

If you have any questions or want to pre-register for this bootcamp please contact: Johannes Schöning (j.schoening@uni-muenster.de)