Here is an amusing video about “beliefing (or not) in UFOs” which shows our boundaries of imaginative power and that optical illusions should be known as brain failures.
In my opinion we have to recognize these things “mental / perception problems” when designing human machine interfaces, in a way that new technology doesn’t confuse the users.
Beside the hardware and software products in the video have a look to the gyroscope functionality in smartphones today (especially the precision). It’s amazing! Real cool things can be done with this feature, I think.
This is an old concept but seems to have (funny) capabilities for future interaction:
We are almost there…
Needs some further effort (e.g. removing gloves) but it’s already amazing.
contents:
But for the last item: What if one or more cars are already standing at the traffic light? ;)
Providing such robust displays combined with tough unibodies (like the MacBook Pro or HTC Legend) surely is a way to reduce the need of cautiousness of the user, and therefore a sort of consistent stress, and to enhance the satisfaction. Nice devices and applications can arise from these things.
If this is in reality like in the following video this is in my opinion a great practical invention for motorcyclists (the interesting part starts at about 2:45):
Exciting new chances and tasks are coming with this conceptual design:
Beside the thoughtful aspects concerning human life:
Are we able to learn anything for human computer interaction based on the human brain workings (right hemisphere = parallel processing & left hemisphere = serial processing)?
Here is some interesting stuff by combining pen input with multitouch (which gives the ability to realize “tools“):
Seems to be developed in extensive technical view. For example, (initially) it is not intuitive for the user to copy an image by holding the one hand down and drag the other with the pen (starting in video at about 1min). So some improvement work in human view on this good idea is still pending…