First of all thanks for the vid. I think you're making an interesting point. Have you actually researched the strain involved with such an interface?
I have a Jazzmutant Lemur http://www.jazzmutant.com/lemur_v20.php, which I use to make music. I can use all ten fingers in an intuitive way. However, it costs way more energy it does just using pen tablet, touchpad and keyboard combined (or another combination). Especially using everything from a three finger pinch I imagine it to become a heavy physical strain. On the topic of Lemur and tablets, industrial designers could surely learn a thing or two from the electronic music industry. Touch-strips (sort of sliders) are inexpensive and intuitive (think a large scrollable area in percentage or 1:1 mode). Or how about the easy to use combination of interface adaptation with this simple MIDI controller combined with eg Ableton Live http://www.novationmusic.com/products/nocturn?option=1. It sure as hell beats programming a Lemur in simplicity and directness. And what about For some reason, we are limited to this day to a single touchpad and a keyboard on our screens. Why don't we have: proximity sensors touchwheels motion controller (miniwii?), e.g. just slightly waving your hand from a small distance to skip from one area to another, improving distant usability (think entertainment centre, scanning through documents or photo's, or whichever you come up with) and a dozen other techniques that could improve tangibility of user interfaces. But you need adaptable software, maybe some sort of interface swapping. Again, MIDI/OSC has researched far more advanced heavy duty interface users over a lengthy period of time. All I know is that if I ever came to work in the interface industry (researching both OS possibilities and hardware standards) I would research all those other areas currently under development. Again thanks for the vid. I'll be watching closely! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46632 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
