Comments on: Human Computer Interaction Awakens

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 31 May 2007 17:24:41 +0000

Don’t forget the Nintendo Wii. The wireless controllers are pretty amazing.

By: Nari Kannan

Nari Kannan — Thu, 31 May 2007 08:46:45 +0000

Here’s another User Interface that’s catching on in unlikely places than what it was originally designed for ; The Nintendo Wii Remotes.

Here’s an interesting story in the Wall Street Journal on how hackers are using the API for the Wii remote to control things like Roomba Vacuum Cleaners, TiVos and even Robots!

Magic Wand: How Hackers Make Use Of Their Wii-motes The $40 Game Controller Hits Balls, Plays Deejay And Regulates a Roomba
By JAMIN BROPHY-WARREN
April 28, 2007;

URL for this article:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117772630151685703.html

Subscription May be required, I am not sure…

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 31 May 2007 03:16:50 +0000

Minority Report, do you mean whenever you use your computer it plays Schubert in the background?

Seriously though, there is another user interface that is perhaps not as “cool” but one we would all want and simply has not been realized (at least not at a consumer level): when he enters his apartment he gives it verbal commands and it does what he asks. Overhead light, stereo, etc.

By: Nabeel Hyatt

Nabeel Hyatt — Wed, 30 May 2007 19:18:01 +0000

What I love about entering a new field is learning the new conference circuit.

have you been to SIGCHI yet? (the CHI being Computer-Human Interaction)

It’s a good place to start if you’re going to be delving into this area. And I expect you’ll be hanging around the Media Lab a little more as well.

By: David Duey

David Duey — Wed, 30 May 2007 14:51:53 +0000

“A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he’d taken and the corners he’d cut in Night City, and he’d still see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void…”

William Gibson, Neuromancer