The Body Language User Interface, or BLUI™ began as a collaboration between a computer scientist and an artist. The artist was interested in drawing and sculpting in a 3D virtual environment, while the computer scientist was interested in exploring virtual reality user interfaces.
First result of this collaboration is called BLUI : an unique form of hands-free interaction that supports blowing at a laptop or computer screen to directly control certain interactive applications. Localization estimates are produced in real-time to determine where on the screen the person is blowing.
BLUI is a creation of Bill Brody and Chris Hartman of the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The aim is also the basis for a user interface: there is no proper surface and you move with complete freedom in the environment. http://www.blui.org/
