The early development of the steam engine: An evolutionary interpretation using complexity theory

The Visual Interaction Platform (VIP) is a Natural User Interface (NUl) that builds on human skills of real-world object manipulation and enables unhindered human-human communication in a collaborative situation. The existing VIP is being extended towards the VIP-3 to allow support for new kinds of interactions. An example of a natural augmented reality interface to be realized via the VIP-3 is a pen-and-paper interface that combines properties of real pen-and-paper with typical computer functionality for flexible re-use of information. Two ongoing VIP-3 research projects are also briefly discussed: the first project aims to develop supporting tools for early architectural design, while the second project aims at supporting 3D interaction for navigating and browsing through multidimensional data sets