Link: Tap is the New Click (vimeo.com)
The latest of the Economist’s Technology Quarterly has a survey of the history and state of touch technology.
“The double click does not translate terribly well to touch screens, however. This has led some researchers to look for alternatives. In developing his multi-touch screen, Dr Han found that there can be more to touch input than [...]
Aza Raskin write about avoiding modalities.
“What’s wrong with modal overlays? In a word, they are modal: You are either interacting with the content or the overlay. Modal overlays don’t allow you to refer back and forth between two sources of information, or move fluidly between two actions. The second problem with modal overlays are that [...]
Just came across a blog published by Kevin Arthur called Touch Usability. The blog tracks articles related to touch UIs, and has a great collection of content.
Link: Touch Usability (touchusability.com)
A few Android video demos have landed. The first one shows some nice details with a window-blind metaphor for accessing core functions, as well as a perplexing use of the ‘icons on a desktop’ metaphor.
The second shows a rather cool use of a compass in the hardware. I’m sure that there are lots of fun [...]
It’s all about touch these days.
“A touch-sensitive gadget with the sensing panel on its back, instead of the screen, is being developed by US researchers. Using your fingers behind the device allows a firmer grip and more accurate performance without obscuring your view of the screen, they say.”
“As soon as you put your hands on [...]
Marek Pawlowski reviews the HTC Touch, an attempt at a touch-screen that’s slightly out of the ordinary, and finds it slightly lacking.
“For starters, the TouchFlo sensor doesn’t work very well. The screen itself had an almost ’sticky’ feel to it when I first took the product out of the box and it was actually physically [...]
“The new phone goes much further, using very precise actuations of its built-in motors to produce realistic, button-like clicks whenever an onscreen button is pressed. “Using a touch-screen, you normally lose the tactile confirmation you get from pressing a button,” says Mr Viegas. But with haptic feedback, on-screen buttons can be made to feel real [...]
“This work explores the visual link between information and physical things, specifically around the emerging use of the mobile phone to interact with RFID or NFC…
“I�m interested in the visual link between information and physical things. How do we represent an object that has digital function, information or history beyond it�s physical form? What are [...]
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