Usability Quote of the Day

May 23, 2012

There's something very odd going on here. If designers made completely unrealistic assumptions about the physical world when designing technology, then we would blame them (and likely sue them) for technical incompetence. Yet when they make grossly unrealistic assumptions about human nature... we don't blame the designers, we blame the unfortunate people who are just trying to do what the design requires. -- Kim Vicente, The Human Factor, p. 45.    (via interaction-design.org)

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

New Input Concept: KeyWheel by Microth

Does this new input concept have broad application? ...

"Microth published a new input concept for mobile devices on their site dubbed KeyWheel.

The KeyWheel differs from the Apple iPod TouchWheel in that it is using absolute and discrete positioning. The KeyWheel takes into account the starting position of the gesture and it's length. The KeyWheel advantages are that only a small number of keys is necessary for it to work and all selections are made by the same movements, which should make it easy to use. It works a bit like the old dial on phones actually.

I do not know if the KeyWheel is break-through user interface idea or not. Microth also offers input software for mobile devices called inPad. I guess they are looking for hardware manufacturers to give the KeyWheel a try. More details on the Microoth site."   continued ...   (Via I4U News)

Microth Keywheel - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

Microth Keywheel.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

You can find its' demo at
http://www.microth.com/circumscript/demo.asp

3:37 AM  

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