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Chennai, Nov. 24 Professors and students at IIT Madras will join hands with HP Labs India’s researchers in exploring newer forms of human-computer interacting, including hand gesture and speech, to influence virtual objects on a computer monitor or projection screen.

They will be working along with a team from the State University of New York in the project, according to a company official.

For the next three years, HP Labs will provide IIT Madras annually $50,000-$70,000 to work on the project.

There will be at least one Ph.D student working in the project along with a few under graduate students, said Mr Ajay Gupta, Lab Director, HP Labs India.

HP Labs selected IIT Madras for HP Labs Innovation Research Award 2008 to fund the joint research project. The award is part of the HP Labs Innovation Research Programme that aims to create opportunities at universities and research institutes globally for breakthrough research.

Following an open and competitive process that reviewed over 450 proposals from 200 universities in 28 countries, HP selected 41 projects at 34 institutions.

IIT Madras joins other institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany, Russian Academy of Sciences and China’s Tsinghua University, says a press release.

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