Sleek Multi-Touch Interface gets Your Hands out of the Way!

Industrial Design
Oct 16, 2009
7 Comments


The problem with a touch screen interface is that your finger tends to block the GUI (graphic user interface) object you are engaging. On small screens with just a single finger (or digit) it is not that big of a deal. However on a multi-touch interface where you use more than one finger, viewing problems start to arise. This problem gets compounded when a multi-touch interface moves to a larger screen, where you would use all five fingers for a full gestural input.

Over a quarter-century ago, Xerox introduced the modern graphical user interface paradigm we today take for granted.

That it has endured is a testament to the genius of its design. But the industry is now at a crossroads: New technologies promise higher-bandwidth interaction, but have yet to find a truly viable implementation.

10/GUI aims to bridge this gap by rethinking the desktop to leverage technology in an intuitive and powerful way.

10/GUI, a summer project by Robert Clayton, solves this issue by decoupling the multi-touch interface from the screen onto an essentially large laptop track pad. I won’t say too much more so that his cool video (below) can do the talking.

10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo.

Check out his 10/GUI website for more information.




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    • Comments

    Kerrick
    Oct 16, 09 – 3:32 am

    This is essentially what the new Wacom Bamboo Touch does, isn’t it?

    10/GUI the human computer interface of the future for people with more than two fingers | Innovation Toronto
    Oct 16, 09 – 6:07 am

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    George I
    Oct 16, 09 – 10:34 pm

    Looks inspiring at first, but once they get going with actual demonstration, it feels more limiting than the current OSX we all use. I guess it’s one of those things you can’t really understand till you try the physical hands-on interface.

    DT
    Oct 16, 09 – 11:21 pm

    Kerrick, now that you mentioned it, you are probably right!

    Michael
    Oct 17, 09 – 8:02 am

    wow…so simple…yet so novel! thx for sharing :]

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    Nov 25, 09 – 12:03 pm

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