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From Wired.com:
"Minority Report" showed us a very touch-centric, holographic display future of interacting with objects and windows on screen with our hands. "Her" on the other hand takes a step back with this and gives us a more, as Wired put it, "discrete" user interface custom for us and personally interacting with it through audio and voice commands.
So, with that in mind, what kind of user interface of the future is more preferred?
A touch-based UI started with Windows 8 then moving into "MInority Report" territory?
Or, a UI we personally interact with through voice commands and even conversations?
Or, a combination of both?
Or, sticking to the tried and true tested method of traditional keyboard and mouse for the foreseeable future?
The user interface seems to be most oft-argued topic when it comes to Windows operating systems, especially when Microsoft pushed a touch-based interface for the non-touch based majority of consumers.Todays smartphones were another object of Barretts scrutiny. Theyre advanced, but in some ways theyre not advanced whatsoever, he says. They need too much attention. You dont really want to be stuck engaging them. You want to be free. In Barretts estimation, the smartphones just around the corner arent much better. Everyone says were supposed to have a curved piece of flexible glass. Why do we need that? Lets make it more substantial. Lets make it something that feels nice in the hand.
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That, too, is a trend thats very much alive right now. Consider how todays mobile operating systems, like iOS and ChromeOS, hide the messy business of file systems out of sight. Theo, with his voice-based valet as intermediary, is burdened with even less under-the-hood stuff than we are today. As Barrett puts it: We didnt want him fiddling with things and fussing with things. In other words, Theo lives in a future where everything, not just his iPad, just works.
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In essence, it means that AI has to be programmed to dumb itself down. I think its very important for OSes in the future to have a good bedside manner. Barrett says. As politicians have learned, you cant talk at someone all the time. You have to act like youre listening.
"Minority Report" showed us a very touch-centric, holographic display future of interacting with objects and windows on screen with our hands. "Her" on the other hand takes a step back with this and gives us a more, as Wired put it, "discrete" user interface custom for us and personally interacting with it through audio and voice commands.
So, with that in mind, what kind of user interface of the future is more preferred?
A touch-based UI started with Windows 8 then moving into "MInority Report" territory?
Or, a UI we personally interact with through voice commands and even conversations?
Or, a combination of both?
Or, sticking to the tried and true tested method of traditional keyboard and mouse for the foreseeable future?