Chopsticks is one of the most minimalistic device, yet its usage is so versatile. I think the possibility of using chopsticks and touch screen to replace mouse based human-computer interface would greatly enhance the user experience.
If you consider each window/item as object floating on desktop, using a pair of chopsticks you can:
"Pick up" an object ;
"Poke" a button;
"Squeeze" or "Strech" an object to resize it;
"Flip" an object;
Use one stick to "pin down" the center and the other to rotate an object around it;
"Merge" two objects together;
"Split" an object to two;
I believe there are many other possibilities.
chopsticks can do 3-dimentional action too - like wrapping noodles. Windows does not have enough dimensions to take that advantage yet.
ReplyDeleteIf you stick to 2D, it is actually similar to the multi-point touch-screen, as illustrated here
ReplyDeleteI believe interfacing capability will "pull" OS to it's level, like mouse was developed first, then Windows adopt it.
ReplyDeleteI also believe it has several advantage over the current finger-based mulit-touch:
1.Single hand operation with two touch points that can span screen width
2. Finer grain touch point.
3. Differenciation of primary/secondary touch point, if you mark the two sticks differently (with some electronic/magnetic property). I don't know how you can do that with fingers, maybe you need to wear some thing?
什么时候发展到Minority Report里Philip Dick设想的那种屏幕就爽了。
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