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Interactive and Immersive technologies around…

I love Human Computer Interaction and it has reason, it deals with two most powerful and complex machines in the world, a computer and human! If we visualize human computer interaction in various phases, we can conclude that it grown like –

Type => Click => Speak => Touch => Behave

Last phase behave is most interactive and is related with natural user interaction, where you are the controller. Kinect can be seen as an example of this. You can control machines using some gestures that you do naturally in real life.
Recently, I found some technologies on the web, really immersive and interactive. I feel they are worth mentioning here.

Disney turns houseplants into multi touch surfaces-

 

                Amazing technology by Disney where plants can be easily converted into remote controllers. Here, unlike Kinect, plants are the controllers of a computer instead of human. And that makes it innovative. It’s different! It’s something that was never thought and seen before.

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670595/disney-turns-houseplants-into-multi-touch-surfaces

Immersive display experience –

                A patent, recently filed by Microsoft, looks like something immersive. They may release it as a part of Xbox in its next version.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/09/microsoft-patent-shows-holodeck-style-full-room-immersive-display/

Power of your palms –

                A joint research by Newcastle university and Microsoft research, Cambridge, tries to achieve which could not be achieved precisely by Kinect so far. This sensor also has an IR emitter and it can be wore like watch. It can recognise all movements of your palm including fingers very precisely. You must have a look here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G98zYMMEDno&feature=youtube_gdata_player

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press.office/press.release/item/power-in-the-palm-of-your-hands

After watching these technologies coming up (though they are from Behave phase of HCI), I believe that the next phase of HCI will be “Think”! J

Looking forward!

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