Jennifer Roland is a freelance writer with a passion for ed tech. As technology manufacturers ­design the latest gadgets to control televisions, video game systems and even computers, many find ...

Beth Bacheldor is a freelance journalist based out of North Carolina with more than 20 years of experience in covering IT news. The computing interfaces featured in movies such as Minority Report and ...

Of course, the most natural user interface of all would be when the computer can read your mind with no effort on the user’s part. This is the promise of research around brain-computer interaction.

Microsoft's research labs have been known to create some pretty wild projects. Granted, not all of them have hit the market or anything, but there's a good chance that something huge down the road ...

Publicly and privately, Microsoft officials have been making much of the company's myriad multi-touch input projects (especially with Windows 7 and Windows Mobile 7). But Microsoft's view of what the ...

I’m a huge fan of natural user interface technologies (NUI) such as pen, ink, touch, multi-touch, speech, etc. I especially love exploring the technical and usability issues that NUI present. As such, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Following a new trend in television interaction, Infosys showed new ways to allow consumers to ...

[Matt], [Andrew], [Noah], and [Tim] have a pretty interesting build for their capstone project at Ohio Northern University. They’re using a Microsoft Kinect, and a Leap Motion to create a natural user ...

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Long Zheng of istartedsomething links to the this video of Bill Buxton talking about the Natural User Interface. It’s worth a look-see. Apparently Mr. Buxton gave a presentation at the conclusion of ...

The scope and iPad represent just two of the many types of interfaces we work with. Fueling the range of variation is the trend toward natural user interfaces (NUIs) found in several consumer devices.

One application’s NUI will probably not be appropriate for another’s. Even though touch screens are the basis forsome of today’s most effective NUIs, such as those found on smartphones, tablet PCs and ...