"Why bother switching from GUI to NUI?", a question asked and answered by Josh Blake, plus my "2 cents" and some links.

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"Why bother switching from GUI to NUI?", a question asked and answered by Josh Blake, plus my "2 cents" and some links. Posted: 26 Feb 2011 03:36 PM PST In Chapter 1 of Natural User Interfaces in .NET,  Josh Blake asks and answers a question posed by many people who have been under the spell of keyboard input and GUI/ WIMP interaction:  Why bother switching from GUI to NUI?  The answer?  Read Chapter 1 (pdf) of the book - the chapter is free. Here are a few of my personal reasons:   1.  I want to buy the next version of the iPad or something like it. 2.  I want to buy a new large-screen Internet HD TV. 3.  I want to buy a Kinect. 4.  I do NOT want to interact with my new TV with a Sony remote.  Too many tiny buttons! 5. I do NOT want to interact with my new TV with a keyboard,  because it reminds me of...work. 6.  Most importantly:  I want to design apps for the people I care about, and others with similar needs:     My mom.       My grandson. Moms and dads with kids in tow. People with special needs and/or health concerns, and the people who care and guide them. Knowledge sharers and (life-long) learners.... RELATED "Smart" Interactive Display Research How Natural User Interfaces are changing Human Computer Interaction   View more presentations from Marco Silva RELATED - and somewhat related    Moms with Apps Design for Care Seth Sandler Seth Sandler's Blog Seth Sandler's  Ultimate List of Interactive Tables Dan Saffer Bill Buxton Johnny Chung Lee's Procrastineering Blog Josh Blake's Blog:  Deconstructing the NUI      Chapter 1 (pdf)  Free! Blake.NUI "Blake.NUI is a collection of helpful controls, utilities, and samples useful for multi-touch and NUI development with WPF, Surface, and Silverlight." OpenKinect Wiki OpenKinect Community Founder Joshua Blake Comes Up With His Own Version of Win 7 Multitouch on Kinect Madhav K, KinectHacks 1/14/11 Kinect SDK Could Open New Worlds for Motion-Controlled Interfaces Mike Martin, TechNews World, 2/22/11 SparkOn NUI Group UX Matters "Why don't usability problems get fixed" Encyclopedia:  Human Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, User Experience, Information Architecture, Usability and More (Interaction-Design.org)  (This is not an inclusive list.) http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com

A little off-topic: Slideshow of my cell phone camera effects experiments at Amelie's French Bakery, NoDa, Charlotte, NC. Posted: 26 Feb 2011 05:32 AM PST I dropped my nephew off at the airport before the crack of dawn this morning, and took the opportunity to visit Amelie's French Bakery in the NoDa neighborhood of Charlotte (NC). The croissant was awesome and the coffee hit the spot. It occurred to me that I'd never checked out the camera effects features on my cellphone. Below is a slideshow of my experiments - there are many pictures of the same "scene", with different effects. (The flash was on for some of the pictures, and off for others.) http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com

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