Natural User Interface Group or NUI Group is an interactive media group researching and creating open source machine sensing techniques to benefit artistic and educational applications. NUI Group is also a world wide community, which offers a collaborative environment for developers that are interested in learning and sharing new HCI (Human Computer Interaction) methods and concepts. This may include topics such as: voice/handwriting/gesture recognition, touch computing, computer vision, and information visualization.

Our current focus is "Open Source Interface", which is solely for accelerating development of existing hardware and sensing solutions, Thus allowing us to find the cheapest and most effective ways to construct our input devices. This project is truly amazing, which attracts a variety of people from around the globe. We are students, researchers, interaction designers, user interface designers, software engineers working on opens source hardware and software solutions. With over 1300 NUI Group members all over the world we are changing ways of human computer interaction.

One very important aspect of this project is to create and utilize open standards that allows software development to flourish. For example, we use the TUIO protocol, which is the standard for tabletop communication. Another crucial standard that must be created in an open environment is "Gesture Standards", which allows for fluid interaction across input devices. Our doors are always open and looking for new people with similar interests and dreams. We believe that community is more powerful than money or technology.

We are mainly maintaining a set of open source projects including:

OpenTouch - WinLibre GSoC 2007 Best Success - multi-touch library for Mac OS X Touchlib - First open source library for multi-touch screen operation working under Linux and Windows TouchAPI- A library which allows for rapid prototyping of multi-touch client applications in Adobe Flash/Flex/AIR or Silverlight/WPF TUIO Simulator - Java TUIO protocol simulator allowing you to test your multitouch apps without multitouch screen (written by reactivision project team)

Other than just mentioned projects, we are also looking forward to work with other open source projects like reactivision, libavg, opentable and many more that are widely used by NUI Group members. We have also started to work on multitouch applications for iPhone/iPod Touch using recently released iPhone SDK and we are waiting for innovative project proposals from community.