Erix Blog » Alternate User Interfaces http://ericburdo.com/blog All Things Geekery - A blog by Eric Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:26:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= New Input Devices on the horizon? http://ericburdo.com/blog/user-interfaces/43/new-input-devices-on-the-horizon/ http://ericburdo.com/blog/user-interfaces/43/new-input-devices-on-the-horizon/#comments Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:39:20 +0000 Eric D. Burdo http://blog.rlisolutions.com/user-interfaces/43/new-input-devices-on-the-horizon/ Chris Harrison (a PhD student at CMU) is working on a new input method.  Scratching.

Yes, scratching.

Johnny Chung Lee (from the Wii remote fame) posted an article with some videos.  The technique looks rather interesting.  You can scratch and tap on a surface, and use it to control your computer, PDA, etc.

The full article is here (including a video of the scratch method).

Scratch Input and Low-Cost Multi-spectral material sensor

 

Here is another user interface.  It uses a space and time method to keep track of what you were doing.  The video explains it better than I can.

SpaceTime

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