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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

CES2010 has been billed the Tablet Show and 2010 has been christened the Year of the Tablet. As I’ve said that may all be premature on some levels, but these kind of changes do take time for all of ...

Microsoft‘s Kinect for Xbox 360 ditched handheld controllers for gestures and sound, but natural user interfaces don’t have to be restricted to video games. That’s what Microsoft’s research group said ...

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 ...

When you first see Leap Motion in action (video below), you think that the developers drew their inspiration straight from the Steven Spielberg / Tom Cruise movie, Minority Report. Tom Cruise in ...

SEATTLE — Artificial intelligence was the “unrecognized” driver in a variety of Microsoft Corp. research slated for future products, Bill Gates revealed this week. Microsoft's founder and chief ...

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 ...