Next Gen of Phone Control Tech
Within a few years, touch screen, gyroscope, voice control technology can be seen on mobile devices has revolutionized the way we use mobile phones and computers. According to to Sohu IT compile foreign media reports, this week, researchers from around the world showed the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, a new creative computer interaction. Which have concentrated on getting the mobile device to the development of some new direction, they may soon touch screen like the iPhone or Android devices will become commonplace.
Microsoft shows off gesture control technology
Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) the General Assembly the main Xi Luobu • Miller (Rob Miller) said: "We see the new hardware, for example, rely on the tongue movement or muscle contraction activate the device, based on our existing equipment (such as the Kinect, Wii or existing phone's built-in sensor) to build a prototype device. "
In the exhibition, the most impressive and most have a creative potential by dithering wrist or twist your fingers to perform complex tasks.
This interface is called Digits, invention by Microsoft Research and the University of Newcastle, the British researcher David Kim (David Kim). It needs to be worn on the wrist by a motion sensor, an infrared light source and camera. Similar to the mobile version of the Microsoft Xbox Kinect movement sensing device, Digits can accurately follow the arm and finger movements and can reproduce them or controlled by a complex computer game screen. Kim said: "We imagine a smaller device, like a watch wearing user computing device communications equipment and personal with their surroundings by simple gesture."
Similar Digits such projects Glimpse the future of mobile computing. After all, before the iPhone was released, the multi-touch interface only appeared in such meetings. The researchers believe that the limitations of existing control methods continue to hinder the development of mobile computers do not have these limitations, mobile computers become more powerful.
"We expect more and more and the need to use their own computing devices anytime, anywhere", Kim said: "efficient input and interaction on mobile devices is still challenging, because of the size and input capabilities of the device so we have to weigh repeatedly."
The advances in mobile technology to provide researchers with a simple experiment. Some of the team at the conference shows the new features brought by modifying the existing mobile interface.
Purdue University Professor Hong Tan shows the control keys feel a touch screen to add buttons and other entities. He is currently also serving on Microsoft Research Asia. The method by vibrating the side of the ordinary screen mounted piezoelectric actuator when the finger contacts the frictional force is generated. The SlickFeel design a piece of ordinary glass can feel like you have a physical button, even with different resistance entity slider. This haptic feedback to help users find the right control key on smart phones and other compact equipment, or the user does not staring at the touch screen can also be used (for example, when driving).
Finger touch technology can identify different people
In another attempt to enhance the touch screen function, Disney Research, Chris Harrison (Chris Harrison) demonstrates the method of sliding and pressing a device to identify a specific person. The interface uses a capacitive touch screen panel equipped with a resistance sensor through a unique identifying human finger impedance characteristics. First use, users need to use your fingers to press and hold for a few seconds, after subsequent pressing operation can be identified. This allows the application to have some of the features, for example, the Tablet PC is passed between different people at the table, they can track document modifications. Harrison said: "This smartphone technology already profound game (no split-screen), and collaboration applications."
The current movement of the mobile phone and the touch sensor is another goal of the experiment. University of Washington doctoral student the Mayak • Gore (Mayank Goel) and colleagues modified the software to automatically identify which hand mobile phone on the Android phone. The software through the exact shape of the inclination angle and the pressure on the touch screen of the monitoring device to achieve this function, the inclination angle detected by the motion sensor of the device. Gore said, which allows the keyboard to automatically adjust according to the user is using the left or right hand. The experiments show that this adjustment input errors can be reduced by 30%.
Free to manipulate the deformation of the interface
The other prototype on display devices with the little people now use the device relationship. A plasticizer interface developed by the MIT Media Lab team, it like clay free deformation. The laboratory of Professor Hiroshi Ishii student Sean Follmer show a number of versions, including translucent curved touchscreen flat on the table. This is made by the glass beads and the oil-containing plastics material, the bottom with a projector and a 3D sensor. Kneading and distort this flexible screen can change the colors shown above.
Imagine this interface will be used on the devices people use every day. However, Desney Tan, there are a variety of interactive methods are available to select will be calculated have an important impact in the future. He said: "We will stop thinking about mobile devices, turned its attention to mobile computing, in my opinion, there is no input or output mode as visual display, mouse keyboard so far as to dominate." Desney Tan, in charge of Microsoft located computing user experience team in Washington and Beijing Human-Computer Interaction Group.
Microsoft shows off gesture control technology
Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) the General Assembly the main Xi Luobu • Miller (Rob Miller) said: "We see the new hardware, for example, rely on the tongue movement or muscle contraction activate the device, based on our existing equipment (such as the Kinect, Wii or existing phone's built-in sensor) to build a prototype device. "
In the exhibition, the most impressive and most have a creative potential by dithering wrist or twist your fingers to perform complex tasks.
This interface is called Digits, invention by Microsoft Research and the University of Newcastle, the British researcher David Kim (David Kim). It needs to be worn on the wrist by a motion sensor, an infrared light source and camera. Similar to the mobile version of the Microsoft Xbox Kinect movement sensing device, Digits can accurately follow the arm and finger movements and can reproduce them or controlled by a complex computer game screen. Kim said: "We imagine a smaller device, like a watch wearing user computing device communications equipment and personal with their surroundings by simple gesture."
Similar Digits such projects Glimpse the future of mobile computing. After all, before the iPhone was released, the multi-touch interface only appeared in such meetings. The researchers believe that the limitations of existing control methods continue to hinder the development of mobile computers do not have these limitations, mobile computers become more powerful.
"We expect more and more and the need to use their own computing devices anytime, anywhere", Kim said: "efficient input and interaction on mobile devices is still challenging, because of the size and input capabilities of the device so we have to weigh repeatedly."
The advances in mobile technology to provide researchers with a simple experiment. Some of the team at the conference shows the new features brought by modifying the existing mobile interface.
Purdue University Professor Hong Tan shows the control keys feel a touch screen to add buttons and other entities. He is currently also serving on Microsoft Research Asia. The method by vibrating the side of the ordinary screen mounted piezoelectric actuator when the finger contacts the frictional force is generated. The SlickFeel design a piece of ordinary glass can feel like you have a physical button, even with different resistance entity slider. This haptic feedback to help users find the right control key on smart phones and other compact equipment, or the user does not staring at the touch screen can also be used (for example, when driving).
Finger touch technology can identify different people
In another attempt to enhance the touch screen function, Disney Research, Chris Harrison (Chris Harrison) demonstrates the method of sliding and pressing a device to identify a specific person. The interface uses a capacitive touch screen panel equipped with a resistance sensor through a unique identifying human finger impedance characteristics. First use, users need to use your fingers to press and hold for a few seconds, after subsequent pressing operation can be identified. This allows the application to have some of the features, for example, the Tablet PC is passed between different people at the table, they can track document modifications. Harrison said: "This smartphone technology already profound game (no split-screen), and collaboration applications."
The current movement of the mobile phone and the touch sensor is another goal of the experiment. University of Washington doctoral student the Mayak • Gore (Mayank Goel) and colleagues modified the software to automatically identify which hand mobile phone on the Android phone. The software through the exact shape of the inclination angle and the pressure on the touch screen of the monitoring device to achieve this function, the inclination angle detected by the motion sensor of the device. Gore said, which allows the keyboard to automatically adjust according to the user is using the left or right hand. The experiments show that this adjustment input errors can be reduced by 30%.
Free to manipulate the deformation of the interface
The other prototype on display devices with the little people now use the device relationship. A plasticizer interface developed by the MIT Media Lab team, it like clay free deformation. The laboratory of Professor Hiroshi Ishii student Sean Follmer show a number of versions, including translucent curved touchscreen flat on the table. This is made by the glass beads and the oil-containing plastics material, the bottom with a projector and a 3D sensor. Kneading and distort this flexible screen can change the colors shown above.
Imagine this interface will be used on the devices people use every day. However, Desney Tan, there are a variety of interactive methods are available to select will be calculated have an important impact in the future. He said: "We will stop thinking about mobile devices, turned its attention to mobile computing, in my opinion, there is no input or output mode as visual display, mouse keyboard so far as to dominate." Desney Tan, in charge of Microsoft located computing user experience team in Washington and Beijing Human-Computer Interaction Group.
