Multi-touch Seems To Be The Next User Interface

I wrote about advances in user interfaces a few times (here and here). Then I wrote about Apple’s iPhone (here), which is coming out in less than a month in the US. All those posts have one thing in common – the user interfaces in them are multi-touch and gesture-based.

The new player in this field is Microsoft, which just introduced Surface, a new multi-touch, interactive tabletop display. It interacts with available media sources and allows users to interact with it using their hands. The demo videos are, of course, amazing. One thing I thought was funny in the videos was when the handsome young man and woman sit in front of each other in a pub and then, naturally, start playing with the computer on both sides of the table.

2 Replies to “Multi-touch Seems To Be The Next User Interface”

  1. Well, there’s still no really good interface which is “do what i want”, and perfect one “do what i mean”.

  2. Right :)
    Nice observation of the difference between “want” and “mean”. I’ll remember that.

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