NUI

Microsoft Student Insiders, Joe Osborne and Tom Ziegman, were lucky enough to spend some time with the busiest man at MIX10,  Bill Buxton.   Bill talks about the complexity (and necessity) of integrating the disciplines of technology, business and design.  And true to his…

Microsoft has innovated continually in developing novel interaction modalities, or natural user interfaces. Surface and Project Natal are two examples. While these modalities rely on sensors and devices situated in the environment, we believe there is a need for new modalities that enhance the…

In this episode of the Coding4Fun Show, Brian Peek chats with Josh Blake about Natural User Interfaces and Multitouch programming with .NET.  Josh has written a multitouch PowerPoint replacement called NaturalShow, which was demonstrated during his NUI session at MIX10. Watch and…

reMIX Dublin talk by Wilbour Craddock (Architect Evangelist, Microsoft Ireland)

For many, Natural User Interface (NUI) is a new term, but over the past few years it's become an incredibly important one to Microsoft. If you want to know what we're thinking when it comes to computing in the future, you have to know NUI. So we go right to the source speaking to Principle…

Zig Serafin is the General Manager of Speech at Microsoft. This is a new group that combines all the different areas of speech across Microsoft products into a central group. He joined us to talk about speech as a Natural User Interface and some of the challenges and benefits of speech interface.…

Rob Chambers from the Speech at Microsoft group stopped by to show us a little more about our Speech platform and where developers can get started and a look at some of the things that are possible. What you see (and hear) today is built on the backbone of our work with the Tablet PC platform.…

Susumu Harada is a Ph.D grad in the Computer Science and Engineering department at University of Washington. He invited me over to see a system he built, which allows someone to paint pictures using a voice-controlled mouse. Though the practical applications of this include other uses, drawing is…

Blake.NUI is a new open-source library for multi-touch NUI (Natural User Interface) development.  It can be found at blakenui.codeplex.com and is under a MS-PL license. The library is still in undergoing changes but here are some of the things currently included in Blake.NUI:  Controls…

A new episode of the Coding4Fun Show has been posted over at Channel 9.  This time around, Brian Peek discusses Natural User Interfaces (NUI) and multitouch programming with Josh Blake.  You'll see how Josh used multitouch and NUI principles to build his NaturalShow application, a…