Feel the machines
April 19th, 2007 | Under UI |
Wiimotes are stimulating crowds of hackers out there. Together with Tangible UI a la iPhone, are we eventually going to interact physically with our machines ? The answer is yes.
It’s not easy to make sure predictions, but a layer of abstract metaphor is about to be removed: the point-and-click paradigm will soon live side by side with a more human approach of things. Multitouch screens and wiimote-like devices are introducing a way to collect and exploit our very aproximate and inventive (not to say “confuse”) ways of interacting with our environment.
