Technology Andrew Kun on 07 Aug 2007 08:42 pm
Microsoft Surface
While my main research interest is in speech user interfaces, I have to say that the Microsoft Surface looks very nifty. I really like the ideas for interaction between virtual objects and physical objects shown in the third (rightmost) video on the Surface website. By the way, I found out about the Surface from my wife who was browsing the Ikea Hacker website and found this article (if you’ve been to our house you’re not surprised that she was on this website).
Andrew Kun
on 21 Sep 2007 at 1:35 pm 1.Alexander said …
I’ve tried using a similar thing and it’s pretty cool. The only problem with it is the lack of applications or understanding what application will benefit from such an interface. Pictures (how often do you actually look at them?), puzzles (that’s too expensive for games)… using maps is interesting but… I guess we will see what a killer application would be.