Usability Quote of the Day

February 9, 2012

Most people who encounter computer-based automation at work do not choose the software with which they work, and have comparatively little control over when and how they do what they do. For them, the use of computers can be an oppressive experience, rather than a liberating one. -- Sarah Kuhn, Bringing Design to Software, edited by Terry Winograd, 1996    (via interaction-design.org)

Thursday, June 09, 2005

Click, Draw and Write on Air FogScreen

A very nice new UI. You have to see the video ...

"Imagine an operating theatre, where a surgeon can access an imaging databank on his PC using a similar airborne screen, without having to touch any keys or worry about the hygiene problems these involve. Or imagine new types of simulators or performance art all based on fully-functioning airborne screens.

All of these scenarios are now possible thanks to FogScreen, Inc.’s revolutionary new airborne user interface: FogScreen Interactive.

The world’s first air-touchable interface, FogScreen Interactive builds on the company’s patented airborne projection technology: FogScreen Inia. First prototyped in 2002, this technology, based on the use of dry fog controlled by laminar airflow, has been steadily developed since then; a pen-controlled interface was introduced last year."   continued ...   (Via PhysOrg)

Point Screen - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

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