The Blog of Rudy Amid » user interface http://www.amid.com/werd My Curiosity, Observation, and Opinion Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:21:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Touch Screen Laptop http://www.amid.com/werd/touch-screen-laptop/ http://www.amid.com/werd/touch-screen-laptop/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:39:53 +0000 rudyamid http://www.amid.com/werd/?p=1377 This article was posted on Rudy Amid's Blog:

Touch Screen Laptop

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]]> I’ve kept an eye on touch screen laptops ever since ASUS announced one at CES back in January 2009.  Since then, a few of them have popped up on sale from familiar manufacturers like HP, Toshiba, and IBM.  However, the performance is less than spectacular.  The user interface is not intuitive and the touch response are slow.  I’ve used the iPhone and it set the standard.  I can’t seem to get a matching performance from the PC equivalent.  Maybe it’s due to hardware limitation, and/or the Windows Operating System is not well designed for touch screens.

Here’s a sample video on how clumsy the user interface look:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=juleRDMsUls

This was done on a $1500 Tablet PC.

My 4-year old daughter used an iPhone, for the first time last week, at an Apple Store.  She immediately knew how to use  it with hardly any trouble.  Apple’s excellence in usability design is apparent.  I should take her  to test out the touch screen PC laptops, and see how much she likes (or dislikes) it.

Maybe the designers for touch screen PCs should take the cue from a toddler.  If it’s not user friendly enough for them, it’s not worth using.  And I’m definitely not getting one… yet.

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]]> Earlier this year, I blogged about Johnny Lee’s project on using the Wii-mote to track head movement in 3D. The project had a lot of potential. Sure enough, he’s now featured in TED, re-presenting the same project. This time he’s got Electronics Arts developing an “easter egg” or a hidden feature in a game (not yet disclosed) that uses the $10 head tracking infrared gear. His website featured the other projects he was working on, such as the electronic whiteboard. That gear is already being used by teachers all over the world. For $40, I’ll get one just because it looks so cool!

Here’s his TED presentation video. He got a standing ovation for it.



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