Category Archives: Natural User Interfaces

Google Summer of Code Projects (2009)

Google Summer of Code has again been a huge success for the NUI Group Community in 2009 as it was in 2008. All 7 out of 7 projects were finished successfully.
Thanks to all students and mentors for their great work and contributions. Below is a quick … Continue reading

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Nokia Thinks Head Mounted Displays Are the Future

This is such a cool Scifi meme, but I wish it would go away. There are two basic techniques for doing this.One is to have powerful prisms within a centimeter the eye. These are highly fatiguing after a short time.The second is to shoot lasers into peo… Continue reading

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Survey of Multitouch Hardware Technologies

I frequently get emails asking what multitouch interface technologies are available and haven’t had an easy, comprehensive resource to send them to. If you are looking for this sort of information, this link is the survey you’ve been looking for. Thank… Continue reading

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The 10 Best Articles on Multitouch

Multitouch Maven/Point and Do are a year old today! The unexpected joy of doing this blog has been the opportunity to meet so many unique and interesting people, both online and in person.I’ve pulled what I think are last year’s ten best posts for your… Continue reading

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Finally A Great Multitouch Keyboard.

I’ve been prattling on about the need to integrate mechanical affordances with pressure sensitive keyboard for a while now and I’m really excited to finally see a demo. For me, this really proves the potential!This comes via Johnny Lee’s blog: Procrast… Continue reading

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Great Demo About the Impact of Foveal View on Interface Design

I’ve been working on a book about designing multitouch interfaces and have been looking for great ways to explain the impact of human vision on the design of digital content. While this video is by no means a complete overview, it’s a great primer. If … Continue reading

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Language-Based Interfaces, part 1: The Problem

What would the web be like if you could tell it what you want to do as easily as you currently tell it where you want to go?
Mozilla Labs is starting to experiment with linguistic interfaces. That is, we’re playing around with interfaces where you type commands and stuff happens — in much the [...] Continue reading

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