NUI

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

NUI is fast becoming ubiquitous when it comes interacting with our computers. Speech, touch, and now gesture are becoming everyday control methods for our machines. What is next on the horizon of user interaction? Tobii would like that to be the gaze of your eye. I met Anders Olsson at CES…

Natural User Interface, or NUI, is one of the favourite flavours du jour in certain interaction design and user experience circles. On the one hand, the term signals a change from the Graphical User Interace, or GUI, that has been prevalent since the early 1980s. In many ways, that is good. Not…

Natural User Interfaces (or NUIs) seem to be one of the hottest buzz words in the development world these days. Microsoft is rolling out many technologies that map into NUIs, including Windows 7 Touch, Windows Phone 7 and the soon to be released Kinect for XBOX. But with this new concept in how…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…