Nov 17 2008
Interaction design a la minority report
The company ‘Oblong’ has develop the ‘g-speak’ a way of interaction with gloves in a ‘minority report’ style. So why is this new? The technology uses two gloves that not only read spatial movement from left to right like Softkinetic but also from front to back. This allows you to manipulate or control objects in a much richer way.
Selecting an object can be done for instance by closing the hand palm; grabbing an object, just like in the real world. Now you start to realize how unnatural the whole idea of a mouse is. By moving your hand forward or backwards you can for instance zoom in and out of a picture. This way of interacting gives people the possibility to select and manipulate objects in all three axis.
Video in HD
November 21st, 2008 at 9:26 pm
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December 12th, 2008 at 2:44 am
One of the coolest interactions in the video is when the system allows the user to change the physical of the desk and impacting the virtual configuration of the system. This is illustrated in the video when the user rotates the “screen table”. The data being displayed on the table rotates along with the physical movement of the table, except for the pointer which is being manipulated by the user. This pointer does not move because the users hold his hand stable to hold the pointer in place. Sounds like a small simple element but it adds a lot of possibilities to the interactions that can be supported by this system.
Though this interface leverages more natural physical gestures in an interesting and cool way, this is not to say that users can just rely on their physical-world experience to successfully engage and navigate this system. After all, computer-based metaphors always have an aspect of “magic” because the physical actions we carry out have meaning beyond their direct physical impact. Therefore, users will need to learn how to use their hands to pull, turn, push, select and act on objects within this virtual space.
January 1st, 2009 at 9:27 am
This is not a new idea. The Haptic research lab at SUNY Buffalo has the same thing going for them.
May 10th, 2010 at 5:21 am
A step closer, I really want something like this to be affordable for the masses, and for me to be able to use it to design. I want really big displays too.
September 21st, 2010 at 5:06 am
Technology is highly used again in this post because the g speak has an excellent performance wherein the palms of the hand is only used to make changes.
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April 21st, 2012 at 12:33 am
This is impresive. Do you know if it uses similar add-ons with browsers for internet, or those add-ons you can find it on http://www.activextest.com