How humans will interact with the computer in the near future ?

If you can add a touch screen interface to a small device such as the iPod Touch (or many other devices out there), adding the interface to a desktop or laptop would make things far more interesting.

If I remember correctly it was Microsoft in 2007, that showed off for the first time a touch screen interface named… Surface (don’t blame them ,they are not good at naming things).

Jeff Hann from Perceptive Pixel has uncovered a new multi-touch screen that lets its user manipulate several applications by making simple gestures. He claims that “intuitive” interfaces could make tech more accessible to “non-computer experts”.
“We are all familiar with the mouse, but it still takes a degree of skill to use it. Touch is so intuitive that it’s able to be used by children, by grandparents, and people whose job it isn’t to be able to use a computer,” he also stated.

Clusta (UK-based design outfit) created a gestural interface for one of its clients in trying new ways to interact with websites.
A webcam feeds a computer with data about user’s movements, which are interpreted as commands.

“Rather than just sensing motion in a particular portion of the screen, it will recognize where your hand is moving to and from. So if your hand is moving left to right. it will then spin an object on screen in that direction,” (Matthew Clugston, creative director at Clusta).

And of course…we can try Mind Control. Emotiv (Australian-US collaboration) already has a headset with such capabilities, currently being shown off by using an adventure game designed specifically for it.
The headset (basically 16 electrodes to measure conscious thoughts, emotions, facial expressions and the rotation of the head) allows the player to conduct actions by reading their neural activity. On screen this would result in their avatar lifting and manipulating several objects.

Emotiv will launch the headset in early 2009.

via: BBcNews

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