History & Background

Elliptic Laboratories is located in Oslo, at the centre of the Norwegian ultrasonics cluster. For decades, Norwegian companies have excelled in using ultrasound for immersion, medical and seismic application. The historical reasons are obvious; With a long coastline and petroleum resources, high-tech development has secured both better exploitation and new discoveries. Needs relating to the off-shore industry, such as ship-to-ship communication links, has spurred several startups and technology ventures, many of which are now market leaders in their respective business areas. From its central location, Elliptic Labs shares interests with, and can learn from, some of the best players in the ultrasonic world.

Our Research & Development

Our touchless interaction platform emerges from three different perspectives. First, on the interaction side, we are motivated by the need for better and simpler interaction with the ever-increasing number of devices that surround us. Interaction design is a mandatory part of our work, and is particularly important since touchless interaction is such a new technology category. Second, on the more technical side, expert knowledge from communication theory and signal processing is available to us. This knowledge has been driving our innovation process from the very beginning. It continues to do so, through our own research and through collaborations with academic and private partners. Finally, we seek to join the engineering and interaction work with market analysis and user-preference mappings. Techniques used in statistical consumer science, and commonly applied to clothing manufacturing and the food industry, are adopted to a process of selective, early-stage quantification of user preferences.