> -----Original Message----- > From: Vivec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 7:12 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Super tech demo of Multi-Touch interfaces. The future of > computing > > I saw this on another list, and I felt I had to share it with you all ^_^ > I highly recommend that anyone interested in technology take a look at > this. > > http://www.badacetechshow.com/video/multitouchreel.mpg
It's definitely cool stuff - the trick will (as always) be to pragmatically understand "good touches" from "bad touches" (without an after school special to help). People will expect to lean on the display and NOT have their elbows cause input for example. Fatigue will definitely be an issue for any extended use - there's a reason that more natural motion-based interfaces like pen-computing or gestural computing still haven't replaced the mouse and keyboard. I would expect such systems to find appreciative audiences in the kiosk world. It's also clearly applicable to certain tasks (newspaper/magazine layout, real-time resource management or medical imaging for example) - but not, I think, to general everyday office computing. There were definitely aspects of "Minority Report" that I thought were cool. The one that I'm still wondering on is why can't I copy something to somebody's computer as easily as I can copy it to my clipboard? In the movie they just dragged information to a handheld device then walked that device over to another computer - we can do better than that! Why can't I do, say, Alt+C get a pop up list of friends/workgroup computers and choose one. That person would get an unobtrusive alert and they could press Alt+P in any program to paste what I sent. I find myself having to IM or email small pieces of information all day - email addresses, IPs, code snippets, etc. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:196957 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
