ETech: Rethinking Interaction & Navigation

by HASH on March 7, 2006

I was blown away by Jeff Han’s presentation of multi-touch user interfaces today. Amazing stuff really. Using a touch screen you are now able to completely change the way you interact with your computer. Think Tom Cruise in Minority Report.

Multi Touch Images Multi-Touch Maps Multi-Touch Heat

A few things that multi-touch technology will change:

  • Maps – the military implications are enormous
  • Gaming – the face of gaming will change forever – imagine faster interaction than ever before and more interactive than ever before
  • Image organization – so much faster. zoom, organize, sort, you name it.

I’m just scratching the surface here, wait until the engineers get ahold of this!

NOTE: You really need to watch the video to see how powerful this is

{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }

1 JKE 03.07.06 at 8:50 pm

WOAH!!! (yes yes, minority report)

Is it that this system uses some sort of scanner in the background that detects the user interactions – contrary to those ordinary touchpads we are used to on PDAs? I mean, that’s the only way I could explain this enormous speed. Astonishing!

2 swoosh 03.08.06 at 7:17 am

guess I got to be careful what I think I am thinking about

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