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JoeB from the UK sent me a couple of good links over the weekend.
Firstly a YouTube demo of Jeff Han’s Multi-Touch Sensing. This was recorded in Jan 2006. Aspects of the interface appear in that Apple Phone thing you may have heard of.
The second link was to Seth Goodin’s vision for the web. I’ve heard this message several times before but this is a great post that covers a bunch of scenario’s pointing to how much more we have to do and how much more opportunity there is. Very motivating.
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Hi Rod, Seth’s examples are pretty good matches with what Peter Morville talks about in his interesting book ‘Ambient Findability’…http://www.semanticstudios.com/publications/.
Adam Greenfield’s (http://www.v-2.org/) recent book ‘Everyware’ (which I haven’t read yet) also covers this topic.
And on the topic of multi-touch, have you seen the Lemur?…http://www.jazzmutant.com/
From GraemeH … http://www.flixxy.com/minority-report-interface.htm
Minority report is nice - but don’t forget that Star Trek was there first. Nowhere near as sexy but did you ever notice that the buttons on their control consoles - http://z.about.com/d/gocalifornia/1/0/e/g/em-console.jpg - actually change in response to input.
Down here in the real world, don’t forget the restaurant business has been doing this ‘for real’ for some time now. You know, this kind of thing:
http://www.creative-software-solutions.info/html/restaurant.asp
I’m often impressed with how quickly orders can be entered on these systems - once they get the hang of it, they know where the button will appear before it appears. I’ve been known to hold forth on how computer interface design.