{"id":377,"date":"2010-03-15T15:46:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T21:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/no-touching-truly-invisible-interfaces\/"},"modified":"2010-03-15T15:46:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T21:46:58","slug":"no-touching-truly-invisible-interfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/?p=377","title":{"rendered":"No Touching! Truly Invisible Interfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, March 15, 2010<br \/>Presenters:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonlid.com\/\">Ron Goldin<\/a> &#8211; Lunar<\/p>\n<p>Description:<br \/>Our devices know which way we&#8217;re moving and how dark it is outside. They look us in the face with cameras while we&#8217;re tweeting away. They sometimes even understand when we talk back to them. Learn about success stories and untapped potential in physical interactivity that doesn&#8217;t involve touching anything at all.<\/p>\n<p>Designing for touch: People and Context Come First.<br \/>The technology is here. Sort of.<br \/>We change with technology, eventually.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keyboard:<\/strong><br \/>Once we get used to an interface, we get faster at it (shortcuts).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mouse:<\/strong><br \/>Mouse made it easy to interact with things on the screen. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Devices:<br \/><\/strong>Getting rid of the physical metaphor completely (iphone, pre, droid) touch screens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Games:<br \/><\/strong>Nintendo Wii &#8211; interaction around the entire room.<\/p>\n<p><img height=\"240\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: right\" width=\"320\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/notouching_trulyinvisibleinterfaces.jpg\" \/><strong>Soft Remote:<br \/><\/strong>Twist, squeeze, pull the balls to interact with things. Everyone in the room would have a different remote\/color to interact in a social way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>B+O Touchless remote<br \/><\/strong>You don&#8217;t have to physically touch the remote to interact with it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2008\/03\/28\/video-touchless-bando-remote-control-prototype\/\">Video from Engaget<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>TouchTunes (Airduino)<br \/><\/strong>Air guitar device that involves glove-like device to play guitar through the air. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/How-to-build-an-Air-Guitar-with-Arduino-aka-the-A\/\">Make one yourself<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Playstation 3 Eye<br \/><\/strong>The entire living room is turned into an interface. New Playstation Move similar to the Wii Remote.<\/p>\n<p>Touchless picks up the subtleties of the human body &#8211; physical targets help to sort out the noise.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sony Ericcson Yari<br \/><\/strong>Control the phone with the camera and play games (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=18uWddQZYbg\">iboxing<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Medical Devices<br \/><\/strong>Gestics uses gesture interfaces to compliment the surgical procedure. You can use your free hand to view things closer\/rotate on the screen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Issues:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Discoverability<\/li>\n<li>Trust<\/li>\n<li>Responsiveness <\/li>\n<li>Appropriateness (does it make me feel silly?)<\/li>\n<li>Physical Feedback (i can&#8217;t feel the actual interface)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>State of Voice<br \/><\/strong>Goog-411 good response<br \/>Google Voice has some issues.<br \/>Cars can listen soon, ask about places and get directions. It gets smarter with the sub-grammar is has.<\/p>\n<p>CereBroc is able to make a voice sound correct and not like a robot when a device talks back <\/p>\n<p><strong>Successes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nike Plus &#8211; running to compete against your friend<\/li>\n<li>Middle school kids are given step sensors, and you compete with other schools<\/li>\n<li>FasTrak &#8211; toll payment (RFID)<\/li>\n<li>MetroCard &#8211; deduct payment from card for subway<\/li>\n<li>Citibank fab swipe<\/li>\n<li>BART trials for cell phone deduction to ride train<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Location Based:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4Square &#8211; Please Rob me shows when people say they&#8217;re out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wearable<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Skiing &#8211; don&#8217;t want to take off your gloves to change track on iPod.<\/li>\n<li>Add sensors to clothing for doing these types of things<\/li>\n<li>Phillips has headphones that rotate to change or interact with tracks etc.<\/li>\n<li>What about adding voice controls into clothing.<\/li>\n<li>CuteCircuit has added sensors into clothing to vibrate your arm when you get a call.<\/li>\n<li>Cycling safety &#8211; add turn signals to the back of clothing, controlled by the standard hand signals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Augmented Reality<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ferrari uses this technology to mimic what a wheel can look like on a car.<\/li>\n<li>Lego &#8211; hold up a box and show in front of display to see the actual built model (rotate move around)<\/li>\n<li>SixthSense &#8211; wearable computer with projector to show data on any surface &#8211; interact with hands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, March 15, 2010Presenters:Ron Goldin &#8211; Lunar Description:Our devices know which way we&#8217;re moving and how dark it is outside. 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