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CategoryCombining small screens for simultaneous collaboration
The emerging trend for interfaces which allow two or more people to interact with the same display at the same time is prompting one of the most significant changes UI practitioners have faced. The accepted convention of designing an interface to …
Gaming with simultaneous, multi-person touch
Game developers are continuing to experiment with interfaces which allow two or more people to interact with the same device at the same time. This video above is from Firstborn‘s Doflball game (named after the product’s senior designer Dofl …
Music and finger painting with simultaneous, multi-person interface
Singing Fingers provides a great example of how multiple people can use the same touchscreen simultaneously to create a different and more sociable user experience. The video below demonstrates:
Developed by Eric Rosenbaum and Jay Silver a…
Video showing Toshiba’s glass-less 3D displays
Consumer research consistently finds glasses are one of the main barriers to adoption of 3D displays. The inconvenience of having to find the glasses, potential discomfort of wearing them for long periods and the strange social dynamic they creat…
Virtual 3D typography and iPad light painting
Andrew Muir Wood, MEX alumnus and also a speaker (read his blog here) at the next MEX on 30 Nov – 01 Dec, introduced me to the topic of light painting recently. For those who haven’t heard of this technique, it involves taking long photographic e…
Network capacity crunch and the impact on UX
Growth in the proportion of mobile network capacity used by data services is accelerating. According to Ericsson, a crossover point occurred in December 2009, when the capacity requirements of data services exceeded voice for the first time. The…
Mobile driving other digital experiences, hitting print media
MEX alumnus and 2010 MEX Awards judge David Marutiak sent in a link to a user study by Orange on mobile media habits in the UK, France, Spain and Poland.
The study found mobile media users in the UK are reading fewer newspapers and magazines, w…
Movidius highlights complete 3D UX
3D on mobile devices is about more than just display technology. A good 3D user experience requires input technologies and content creation tools to advance in parallel with the screen.
For instance, new ways of navigating visual depth on mobi…