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I like this a lot, but I think it will augment instead of replace systems. So I walk into my living room, say "Computer. Gesture interface" then change around
by DanielBMarkham 14y ago
I like this a lot, but I think it will augment instead of replace systems.
So I walk into my living room, say "Computer. Gesture interface" then change around things on my large screen monitor while I remain standing, perhaps setting up some music to play and launching and arranging some apps. Then I say "Computer. Mouse interface" and sit down and begin programming.
Not sure of the details, but this inside a mixed environment would be awesome. Might not want to work all day with my hands extended, but I shouldn't need to sit and find a keyboard for everything, either.
I'd also like to see surface displays with touch feedback. I think there are a lot of non-intuitive things like image processing or gaming that could benefit from haptic feedback systems. It's going to be awesome watching these technologies mix with each other over the next ten years or so. Even the simple idea of having multiple screens all over the wall and having them switch depending on which one you're staring at would completely change our relationship with modern technology. (And while we're blue-skying, true 3D would be really nice too) Perhaps we end up with all surfaces being some sort of color e-ink and something like leap as a standard feature of house, office, and car cosntruction? Could that happen?
- nchlswu 14y agoUltimately, I really do think it will be a mixed environment like you say (or a different paradigm entirely). There are a lot of NUI proponents who gas up their work in speech or touch (and touch related) interfaces. I do agree that they will be used pretty widely (maybe not so much speech...) but all of these technologies remain stop gaps in the sense that a mouse was a stop gap solution. They are great technologies that are great stepping stones to something truly natural* that encompasses more than one method of interaction * I don't necessarily think "natural" is necessary in the future, but that seems to be what a lot of folks strive for.