Using Your Hand As A Touchscreen: How It Works and Why It May Be A Work In Progress
Wednesday, 7th March 2012Posted in Blog Archive, Technology
Tags: Christian Loclair, gestures, hand, interaction, thumb, ThumbOnHand, touchscreen
Written by: Craig Hunter
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Forget touchscreen, try no screen. Christian Loclair, student at the Hasso Plattner Institute, has developed a brand new system for controlling devices like smartphones. The technology allows the user’s hands to essentially become a working touchscreen so to speak. It’s called ThumbOnHand Interaction.
The different buttons and features of the device are mapped to the various knuckles of the hand to be used as peripheral triggers. Loclair demonstrates easily navigating through an iPhone’s menu, launching apps as well as full panning and zooming hand gestures (below). Continue reading “Using Your Hand As A Touchscreen: How It Works and Why It May Be A Work In Progress” »
Former Apple UI Expert Sees a World Without Touchscreens
Wednesday, 9th November 2011Posted in Blog Archive, Technology
Tags: body, bret, future, futurist, glass, hands, interaction, interface, ipad, microsoft, tactile-rich, touchscreen, victor
Written by: Craig Hunter
Remember Microsoft’s vision of the future concept video that we showed you a couple weeks back? It might have impressed some, but former Human-Interface Inventor for Apple Bret Victor is calling out Microsoft, saying the concept is a “timid increment from the status quo.”
That “status quo” he’s referring to is the same touchscreen display that most popular platforms (iPad included) currently use as their main approach to interaction. In other words, he thinks the touchscreen form factor is limiting, as he calls it, a “pictures under glass sacrifice” that provides only a “hokey visual facade.”
Victor explained: Continue reading “Former Apple UI Expert Sees a World Without Touchscreens” »
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