{"id":11174,"date":"2006-08-04T12:11:51","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T12:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/08\/next-gen-multi-touch-interfaces.html"},"modified":"2006-08-04T12:11:51","modified_gmt":"2006-08-04T12:11:51","slug":"next_gen_multi_touch_interfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/04\/next_gen_multi_touch_interfaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Next-gen, multi-touch interfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYU researcher <a href=\"http:\/\/mrl.nyu.edu\/~jhan\/ftirtouch\/\" \/>Jefferson Han<\/a>, creator of a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/02\/twohand_touch.html\">much-blogged<\/a> large format, multi-touch flat screen interface (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iVI6xw9Zph8\">original demo<\/a>), spoke at this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/\" \/>TED<\/a> Conference in Monterey.  In this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/tedtalks\/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=j_han&amp;flashEnabled=1\">brief but inspiring video<\/a>, he talks about the technology&#8217;s potential to enable next-generation interfaces that disappear, doing &#8220;the right thing&#8221; with a minimum of effort.  (It&#8217;s at times like this that I wish Adobe made hardware!)  [Via Mattias Jonsson]<br \/>\nIncidentally, it appears they&#8217;re using <a href=\"http:\/\/www-ui.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/~takeo\/research\/rigid\/index.html\">this morphing technology<\/a>, or something close to it&#8211;well worth a look in its own right.  (The server MIME types seem wrong, so to view the very cool video, you may have to download it and change the extension to .MP4.)<br \/>\n[<b>Update<\/b>: For a non-traditional interface that truly sucks (literally), check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynewsphoto.com\/2006\/08\/01\/yahoo-design-expo\/\" \/>this video<\/a> from the Yahoo! Design Expo.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYU researcher Jefferson Han, creator of a much-blogged large format, multi-touch flat screen interface (see original demo), spoke at this year&#8217;s TED Conference in Monterey. In this brief but inspiring video, he talks about the technology&#8217;s potential to enable next-generation interfaces that disappear, doing &#8220;the right thing&#8221; with a minimum of effort. (It&#8217;s at times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11174"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}