tim Rowledge napsal(a):
On 12-Feb-07, at 10:28 AM, Brad Fuller wrote:
stéphane ducasse wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ODskdEPnQ Could be cool to use Genie for that....
I actually dislike this - the movie has been a round for a while and it hasn't grown on me. 'messy desk' might have been a reasonable metaphor years ago in order to get people used to the idea of windowing computer interfaces but it isn't actually a *good* idea. This particular version is nothing more than making a video game out of moving stuff on your screen.
Well, I agree. But it shows something interesting in UI. I call it live-gestures (maybe exists better name). It is different from summoning gestures where drawing symbol call out some functions. It dynamically shows what is happing during drawing the gestures and this gestures are similar to touching a thing. No magic. No drawing symbols. Just touching. I think Grail was first program that uses this kind of gestures. No menu is needed for most actions. Menu could be there, but gestures are shortcuts.
another interface:
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid271543545/bctid422563006
This on the other hand is actually an improvement in the UI. We tried to do a little of this multi-input stuff years ago on the ActiveBook - at Bill Atkinson's urging I believe - but had to do it via two quite separate input devices so it was never really very convincing. It will of course require non-trivial changes in how we arrange our hardware to be useful . Nobody is going to spend a day at work having to hold fingers up to typical displays and typical portables would need noticeable changes.
The shared aspect may turn out to be a major win as well. Imagine traffic control systems working like the demo, where a group of controllers can handle the traffic by moving objects around to block or permit access to airspace, direct to holding patterns, see the progress of all the traffic, etc etc. Or perhaps group reviewing code, making scribble notes, passing blocks of code/notes around. Of course as always the real technology driver is likely to be making it easy and convenient to sort your porn collection.
tim
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And this one... Nothing to say. Genial. I like it :)
Adam