I was present at one of the best historical portuguese puppet show with Bonecos de St. Aleixo.

The play was called “O Auto da Criação do Mundo” from the Centro Dramático de Évora.

The amazing little puppets “títeres” are manipulated with upper rods like the ones from south Italy or north Europe but they are very small in size with 40 cm.

A very interesting performance made by the volunteer participants with amazing puppets.

Porto International Marionette Festival 2011

A unique opportunity to contact with different performances and marionette perspectives.

The Jim Henson Doodle features six original Muppet characters whose shapes are similar to the Google logo.

Moving the mouse the puppets move as they were manipulated by a puppeteer.

Our goal was to study how non expert artistic (animators, performers, puppeteers) interact with puppets using their body””””s as controllers in different actions and different puppets in particular with 2d / 3d puppets.

The interaction with the 3d puppet was very natural like a player in a motion-driven game or a actor in a motion capture system.

Finger Tracking

dynamic community for Kinect development

http://openkinect.org/wiki/Main_Page

TISCH

Tangible Interactive Surfaces for Collaboration between Humans

Great libraries for touch interaction design

http://tisch.sourceforge.net/

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/tisch/index.php?title=Main_Page

Simple Kinect Touch

http://www.ludique.cl/labs/simple-kinect-touch/

Multitouch in any surface using the Microsoft Kinect