NUI: Natural
User Interface
NUI
pronounced newie) is the way the user interacts with any machine application in
the most natural way. We are all now used to tapping, swiping and talking into
our smart phones. We heard a presentation with demonstrations by Rodney
Guzman co-found and chief architect of the local InterKnowlogy (founded in 1999 in Carlsbad) at Mintz Levin hosted by CommNexas.
They are working on hand free interface. Think about a surgeon who can’t
touch anything during an operation or he will pass on germs; a mechanic
working on an oily car engine who doesn’t want his computer contaminated; or a
window shopper who can move her hands outside the store and get more
information about that glorious red dress she fancies. The real challenge seems to be to make a hand
recognition program so sensitive it can turn a dial by virtually gripping it.
Why is this important to all app producers? Today’s users don’t want to read instruction. Intuition has to play a huge part in the process of the interface. Think about double clicking as an example. Clicking once gave one set of actions, clicking twice another set. But that is learned and actually counter-intuitive except to programmers. One click, one gesture, one voice is all that should be necessary.
When designing the SD View Art
Now (SDVAN) App as part of the DNA
of Creativity, San Diego
Visual Arts Network are certainly keeping this in mind. We want an app
that allows you to enter with one tap and immediately get information about all
the visual arts events around you at any given moment. We need simple options
to change the date or change the view from map to street view. And in phase two
of our project we want some element of augmented reality that might let you
create a video review of the event. We want that experience to be easy and apparent
with no long explanation needed. So we are spending the time to plan this
carefully before we have the code developer even start the work.
This area
of technology is changing so rapidly and it is heartening that one of the
companies that is creating advancements in right here in San Diego.
The Invention of Glory: Afonso
V and the Pastrana Tapestries, is a major
exhibition now showing at the The San Diego Museum of
Art and it depicts event for the first time
contemporary to its time instead of allegories. It shows the battles and sieges
of that time. We loved the Drone
project which was part of the Summer
Salon series featured every Friday night throughout the summer. This Salon
projects is about conflict and its depiction in art, in this case a drone
container was re-purposed as a room. It was originally displayed in front of
the General Atomics (the producer of the drones in SD) and amusingly, as it was
being hauled away was mistaken for the theft of an actual drone. The name of the
Salon Series this month is Beyond the Banner which reveres not only to
banner of war, but advertising banner like those at the top of our website
pages. Agitprop is
the Series Co-Curator.
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