Multi Touch Interaction

[Channel Hopper]

You've seen Minority Report, you know of the Currys Christmas Advertising campaign

Its now here

Grab screen interaction, throw away the mouse and keyboard

http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/

 

[BarMoo]

Awesome stuff.

In a similar vain is this great bit of latteral thinking for organising of your windows desktop. Click here for a demo of BumpTop.

 

[spiney]

Er ...... isn't that "virtual reality"?

http://aig.cs.man.ac.uk/albums/phantom/track_legs3.png .

I seem to remember Michael Douglas doing something like that, in "Disclosure".

With that silly hat on, you can't see that somebody's actually stealing your satellite receiver .....

 

[BarMoo]

If you mean my post spiney, the answer is no. BumpTop works with a pen and tablet - and would easily work with a multi-button mouse. The image seen in the demo is just on your average monitor.

Can't wait for it to come to market.

 

[spiney]

Well, Barmoo, not only can't I see the point, I'd go further and say that it looks like a bad idea!

Using a computer mouse, just scrolling and single clicking, it's still too easy to make a fatal mistake! That's why we have "undo", but even so there's lots of things you can't "undo".

The scroll-navigate-click process at least ensures you're only doing one thing at a time, and paying some attention, so there's some check on making mistakes! But with multi-faceted inputs ......

Otherwise, for people who want to work very quickly, there's ways of setting that up.

 

[BarMoo]

If you are familiar with a pen and tablet, the idea (as seen in the demo) is pretty easy to grasp, no offense, LOL.

To be fair, when you are using a pen, you do only do one thing at a time: as such, a mouse seems a resonable input option.

Mind, anyone who's used a mouse with a paint program will know that a mouse sucks for 'drawing'; so some of the intuitiveness of BumpTop would be lost using a mouse. And the fact that there is no 'brush pressure'. Uuum, let me go away and think about this one again, hehe.

I have a pen anyway - so, as I said, can't wait.

 

[Channel Hopper]

If you are familiar with a pen and tablet, the idea (as seen in the demo) is pretty easy to grasp, no offense, LOL.

It's going to pass me by, as I can't open the demo with this laptop

 

[BarMoo]

How come CH? The demo is in WMV and MOV and whatever they have on YouTube?

Sorry about that - its a great demo (if you are into that sort of stuff, hehe).

Hope you get chance to see it sometime