What if touchscreens could use tactile 3-D objects representing concepts, that you could then move around freely in a natural and organic way to play with the information? They can!
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The Sensetable prototype was originally conceived at the MIT Media Lab and has since been developed for "robust and affordable" real-world applications by Patten Studio, who's slogan is "We design and build things you can touch.".
Below James Patten, of Patten Studio demonstrates this new dimension to touchscreens on video.
Also out of MIT, and poised to be snatched up for commercial development, is an interactive whiteboard; which takes abstract drawn concepts made of simple lines and lets them act out what would be their natural course in the real world.
For instance, one could draw a pulley system to move a drawn object, and set it to run its course. Should it not meet your objective, you can adjust any of the elements simply by erasing and redrawing them.
It's fairly easy and intuitive for humans, who have evolved visually, to "eyeball' a system and understand that, say, if one of the arms was a bit longer it would make the trajectory work; however it's very difficult to do the same thing using only thew abstractions of mathematical formulas.
This moving towards making tech adapt to how we work, rather than trying to force ourselves to adapt to technology is clearly the way of the future, as exemplified in Google's soon-to-be-released augmented reality glasses. As this approach takes hold, the more mindfully human-centered interface should serve to make our interactions with tech progressively grow ever more natural and effortless as they flow through our daily lives.
The Sensetable prototype was originally conceived at the MIT Media Lab and has since been developed for "robust and affordable" real-world applications by Patten Studio, who's slogan is "We design and build things you can touch.".
Below James Patten, of Patten Studio demonstrates this new dimension to touchscreens on video.
Also out of MIT, and poised to be snatched up for commercial development, is an interactive whiteboard; which takes abstract drawn concepts made of simple lines and lets them act out what would be their natural course in the real world.
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| MIT's Digital Drawingboard |
It's fairly easy and intuitive for humans, who have evolved visually, to "eyeball' a system and understand that, say, if one of the arms was a bit longer it would make the trajectory work; however it's very difficult to do the same thing using only thew abstractions of mathematical formulas.
This moving towards making tech adapt to how we work, rather than trying to force ourselves to adapt to technology is clearly the way of the future, as exemplified in Google's soon-to-be-released augmented reality glasses. As this approach takes hold, the more mindfully human-centered interface should serve to make our interactions with tech progressively grow ever more natural and effortless as they flow through our daily lives.
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