Sleek Multi-Touch Interface gets Your Hands out of the Way!
The problem with a touch screen interface is that your finger tends to block the GUI (graphic user interface) object you are engaging. On small screens, with just a single finger (or digit) it is not that big of a deal. However, on a multi-touch interface where you use more than one finger, viewing problems start to arise. This problem gets compounded when a multi-touch interface moves to a larger screen, where you would use all five fingers for a full gestural input.
Over a quarter-century ago, Xerox introduced the modern graphical user interface paradigm we today take for granted. That it has endured is a testament to the genius of its design. But the industry is now at a crossroads: New technologies promise higher-bandwidth interaction, but have yet to find a truly viable implementation. 10/GUI aims to bridge this gap by rethinking the desktop to leverage technology in an intuitive and powerful way.
10/GUI, a summer project by Robert Clayton, solves this issue by decoupling the multi-touch interface from the screen onto an essentially large laptop trackpad. I won’t say too much more so that his cool video (below) can do the talking.
10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo.
Check out his 10/GUI website for more information.
Michael
October 17, 2009 at 8:02 amwow…so simple…yet so novel! thx for sharing :]
DT
October 16, 2009 at 11:21 pmKerrick, now that you mentioned it, you are probably right!
George I
October 16, 2009 at 10:34 pmLooks inspiring at first, but once they get going with actual demonstration, it feels more limiting than the current OSX we all use. I guess it’s one of those things you can’t really understand till you try the physical hands-on interface.
Kerrick
October 16, 2009 at 3:32 amThis is essentially what the new Wacom Bamboo Touch does, isn’t it?