Quite a few companies are reclaiming mobile app development these days. Some are moving outsourced development in-house, and others are consolidating line-of-business development…
To give our phones better touch, we actually don’t need anything more than what’s on the device according to Chris Harrison, a professor at Carnegie Mellon.
Imagine going from having only one or two senses to experience the world to five or fifty. That’s what is happening in human-to-computer communications as we develop new user interfaces.
Facebook spending $2 billion to buy Oculus Rift may disappoint gamers, but I think it should give anyone who likes interacting with people in real life a bit of a pause.
The deal should make life easier for some of CloudSigma’s customers, while for the freshly-launched, open-source CompatibleOne it represents early validation.
Gesture control will be integral in controlling the smart home, but it’s still up in the air how it might be implemented. NinjaBlocks uses EMF instead of a camera.
The Swedish firm’s EyeX developer kit, which will ship in March, comes with the latest tools for creating games and other apps that build on the human gaze as a means of interaction.
Ahead of our Mobilize event Oct. 16 and 17, we asked experts how 50 billion connected devices and 6 billion people change their industry. In this essay August’s Jason Johnson tackles the topic of user interface.
Kill your keyboard and chase your mice away. The next generation of user interfaces are coming, and they rely on gestures, better sensors and wireless radios to tell your computers what to do.
Brain to computer interfaces have been a topic of research for years. Using the mind to control a prothetic arm, a computer game, or a wheelchair are all things one can do today. But a new Indiegogo project aims to make the interface better.
Should the same app have a different interface on different devices? Netflix doesn’t think so, updating its Android app for smartphones to replicate the tablet interface found on Android slates and on Apple’s iPad. The improvements make it easier to find and watch content.
AT&T President Glenn Lurie has big ambitions for Ma Bell’s Digital Life division. He’s not slapping together a bunch of connected home applications. He’s building a platform — an iOS for the Internet of things. And like the iPhone, Digital Life may come with its own Siri.
Facebook debuted a new profile design called Timeline at its f8 conference Thursday in San Francisco. If you don’t love the new look at first sight, you better learn to at least like it: Timeline will soon be the only profile design available to Facebook users.
Checking for updates for your Mac is about as fun as watching paint dry, but it doesn’t have to be that way. With a free, simple plugin you can bring all the joy of Nyan Cat to various Mac OS X-based loading activities.
Crunchfish, a Swedish app company, has built software for mobile phones that turns the phone’s camera into a mouse. It’s one of several efforts to bring gesture-control to phones, and an example of how far motion control technology has come in the last few years.
When it comes to mobile devices and their displays, hardware makers tend to pay a lot of attention to the interface found on the front, but very little to what’s on the back. Some notable new research milestones could change that, however.