Wednesday, 14 October 2009

Multi-touch input demo

The 10/GUI project has a crisp video (below) of a multi-touch desktop user interface illustrating the downside in the single point mouse orientated GUI compared to the advantages of the multi-touch GUI.





I quite like the presentation, however I'm not sure how this maps onto a laptop where touchpad and keyboard real estate is limited. I also feel that it won't work out well with users who have had a bad accident with a hedge strimmer and have a few less fingers to use.

Anyhow, it's an interim solution; in 25 years time we will be controlling the computer with out any physical user interface as thought control will be the norm... ;-) Perhaps this should be called the 0/GUI as it require any finger digits at all.

2 comments:

  1. > we will be controlling the computer with out any physical user interface

    until then a half way house....
    http://xkcd.com/644/

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  2. ..just waiting for the required patch for that one...

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