Sunday, February 27, 2011
Why GUI to NUI? Why WIMP to post-WIMP? Do we have the seeds of a manifesto?!
I think we have the beginnings of a GUI to NUI/ postWIMP manifesto here.
In Chapter 1 of Natural User Interfaces in .NET, Josh Blake asks and answers a question posed by many people who have been under the spell of keyboard input and GUI/ WIMP interaction:
Why bother switching from GUI to NUI? The answer? Read Chapter 1 (pdf) of the book - the chapter is free.
Here are a few of my personal reasons:
1. I want to buy the next version of the iPad or something like it.
2. I want to buy a new large-screen Internet HD TV.
People with special needs and/or health concerns, and the people who care and guide them.
Knowledge sharers and (life-long) learners....
RELATED
RELATED - and somewhat related
GUI to NUI Post-WIMP Manifesto: TBA
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Josh Blake's Nice Multi-touch and Natural User Interface Applications for Surface and Windows 7
Information from Josh's YouTube channel:
"This is a video of some of the cool multi-touch and Natural User Interface (NUI) applications I designed and developed for Surface and Windows 7." The InfoStrat.VE map control for WPF and Surface is available for free at http://virtualearthwpf.codeplex.com.
I especially like the moving ring-menu concept, as it facilitates smoother collaboration between people on an interactive table or surface, where flexible orientation control is important.
At 3:15, the demonstration of Josh's ink-shape recognition begins. This is a feature that would be great to incorporate in my applications for children with disabilities who have some fine-motor limitations.
Josh's Blog: Deconstructing the NUI
Josh's Recent Post about post-WIMP concepts:
Metaphors and OCGM
Josh works at InfoStrat
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
The Post-WIMP Conversation: Some Thoughts about Conceptualizing NUI, Part I
This post was updated and moved to the Interactive Multimedia Technology blog:
The Post-WIMP Conversation: Some Thoughts About Conceptualizing NUI, Part I
