Leap Motion is readying a sensor that translates mid-air gestures into precise computer actions. The Leap is a small device about the same size as a smartphone that...
A new voice recognition and speech app called Utter hopes to take on official solutions from Apple and Google, such as Siri and Google Voice Actions....
The Internet has been abuzz with news that Siri may have been cloned and magically transported to Android, giving iOS’s more open rival the chance to...
Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute have taken the wraps off a new project that projects a hover-capable, motion-tracking, multi-touch interface on any surface,...
New to the iPhone 4S will be a software personal assistant named Siri. Simply by speaking a request in natural language, Siri will perform a task...
It looks like we’re finally getting a picture of the long-rumored text-to-speech integration inside Apple’s mobile iOS 5 operating system as a pair of leaked images...
If you’re an Android or webOS user who have been complaining how the iPhone is inflexible and doesn’t keep up with your lifestyle, four new features...
Turns out Microsoft Research published a video demo of their grip-sensing pen that we mentioned yesterday. The demo shows how the pen cursor changes in response...
As always, Microsoft Research has some exciting work in development. Their belle of the ball for TechFest 2011 will be natural user interfaces, and they’ve taken...
Nuance, makers of speech recognition engines such as the Dragon suite for mobile and desktop platforms, has announced that it is offering the Dragon Mobile SDK...
James Kendrick passes along a story of an autistic boy, an iPad acquired by chance, and amazing interactivity between the two. Makes me think of Grace...
Microsoft Applied Sciences Group has posted a few videos of a project called “The Wedge: Seeing Smart Displays Through A New Lens.” Very interesting user interface...
USA TODAY reports that Microsoft is set to pull the dropcloth off of Project Natal at the Electronic Entertainment Expo this week, but don’t call it...
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...
Steve Ballmer had an interesting post on The Huffington Post, timed to run with the buzz generated by his CES2010 keynote, that by most accounts fell...
MIT’s Technology Review gives us a glimpse of the future in an article about Microsoft’s tactile interface experiments. Multi-touch and motion-sensing devices have recently emerged from...
istartedsomething has video of a natural user interface concept being demonstrated around U.S. colleges by Microsoft chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie. Includes a brief...
Basic human/technology interfaces haven’t changed their core functionality in nearly forty years. Point and click GUI has been the standard, and new technologies such as...
I’m a huge fan of natural user interface technologies (NUI) such as pen, ink, touch, multi-touch, speech, etc. I especially love exploring the technical and usability...
According to this posting at the Surface team blog, developers looking to get on the PDC special pricing on Surface units have a bit more time....