Voice as Sound: Using Non-verbal Voice Input for Interactive Control
We describe the use of non-verbal features in voice for direct control of interactive applications. Traditional speech recognition interfaces are based on an indirect, conversational model. First the user gives a direction and then the system performs certain operation. Our goal is to achieve more direct, immediate interaction like using a button or joystick by using lower-level features of voice such as pitch and volume…
The Graphical User Interface Timeline shows a comprehensive historical gallery of GUIs based on the Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointing Device (WIMP) method. The gallery begins with the Xerox Alto, which was the first system to pull together all of the elements of the modern GUI, including a 3-button mouse, bit-mapped display, graphical windows, and an Ethernet network…
The Notification Collage (NC) is a groupware system where distributed and co-located colleagues comprising a small community post media elements onto a real-time collaborative surface that all members can see. The NC randomly places incoming assorted media on its surface: live video from desktop cameras; editable sticky notes; slide shows displaying a series of digital photos, among others.
This program is an outgrowth of the Music Notepad research project. Microsoft funded us to rewrite the Music Notepad for their Tablet PC system as an example and demo of what the system could do…
A Tangible Interface for Collaborative Web Site Design
The Designer’s Outpost is a tangible user interface that combines the affordances of paper and a large physical workspace with the advantages of electronic media to support collaborative information design for the web. Based on an earlier ethnographic study, we have analyzed web site design practice and developed a system to support the practices used by designers during the early phases of information design.
SmoothTeddy is a simple 3D sketch-based modeling and painting software. You can make rotund 3D models such as teddy bears quickly, and paint them in an integrated environment. The resulting 3D models has hierarhical joint structure…
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They make mousing on tiny devices possible, thereby boosting efficiency and enabling true GUI interaction. It also enables a keyboard to instantly become a mouse just by slightly changing the user’s hand gesture, consequently greatly reducing RSI while significantly improving performance. However, new input solutions seem to be very hard to convince people. Anyway, it seems that only few people could understand the power of the original mouse design when it first came out.
Virtualized Reality technology points a set of cameras at an event, and allows the viewer to virtually fly around, and watch the event from completely new positions. In a football game, you could watch the game from the point of view of the quarterback!
Robin Southgate’s Java toaster, a device he assembled as part of his final year design project at Brunel University in England. The toaster dials a freephone number to get the weather forecast and burns the appropriate symbol on a piece of toast. And … that’s it.
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