Speech Recogntion – Some Basic Q&A
With the commercial release of products like Ford Sync, Xbox Kinect, and iPhone 4s (Siri), speech recognition has received more attention and finally gone mainstream. As consumers of these devices, our expectations are quite high and it may take a few awkward moments initially to realize that there are still technical challenges causing us to […]
Avoiding NUIcide
The early 1990s witnessed a major turning point in the evolution of user interfaces. We transitioned from command-line interfaces, like DOS, to graphical user interfaces (GUI), like Microsoft Windows. Now, we are at another major turning point as we evolve from GUI to natural user interactions (NUI). I consider myself lucky to be able to say […]
NUI = No Use of Intermediaries?
As designers and developers of new products, we strive to make people’s interactions with our products more natural and easy. Every once in a great while we reach a major turning point in which a new form of interaction is introduced and we find ourselves at the beginning or bottom of a new learning curve. Well, we […]