Every App has its own User Interface. This was the promise of Apple's iPhone. No keyboard on your phone--- just a touch screen. Jobs had a point. Every app needs its own User Interface. On a phone or any handheld device is more obvious.
Handheld devices are being used in almost every setting. Take this news from Mobile Computing, with the promise to deliver tablet PCs to the hospital setting.
Imagine, a display only, 13" lcd "tablet"--- no keyboard, just a touch screen, running full speed OS X in all its desktop glory. secure shell to your server? open a terminal.app on your tablet mac and there you go... logging onto your server. oh right, you're in the office with wifi all around... thats ok... your linux server just emailed you the hourly log from /var/log/messages but you have to meet your staff for coffee just across the street, so you're reading the log while sipping coffee in starbucks.
what about the desktop? with the advent of better User Interfaces--- could mark the end of the mouse and quite possibly the keyboard. i'd trade my mouse for touching stuff on my display. The keyboard could quite possibly remain--- for typing reports and such.
We might even see an age where every display follows us. User configurable displays--- based on your function/role in an organization. It sounds very Star Trek-ish, with each LCARS terminal configured specifically for the task at hand but manipulated in a very Minority Report-ish way.
Our machines are becoming faster, more powerful with the arrival of multicores. what are we going to do with all that power? our future machines will allow for better ways of interacting with our data, a more stimulating experience communicating with our friends, family and business contacts.
Future User Interfaces will liberate us from boring device-interfaces and spur creativity in designing appropriate but exciting human-computer interaction. More than ever, every person becomes a node on the network and more importantly, for both work and play, we get to touch our data.
Handheld devices are being used in almost every setting. Take this news from Mobile Computing, with the promise to deliver tablet PCs to the hospital setting.
Imagine, a display only, 13" lcd "tablet"--- no keyboard, just a touch screen, running full speed OS X in all its desktop glory. secure shell to your server? open a terminal.app on your tablet mac and there you go... logging onto your server. oh right, you're in the office with wifi all around... thats ok... your linux server just emailed you the hourly log from /var/log/messages but you have to meet your staff for coffee just across the street, so you're reading the log while sipping coffee in starbucks.
what about the desktop? with the advent of better User Interfaces--- could mark the end of the mouse and quite possibly the keyboard. i'd trade my mouse for touching stuff on my display. The keyboard could quite possibly remain--- for typing reports and such.
We might even see an age where every display follows us. User configurable displays--- based on your function/role in an organization. It sounds very Star Trek-ish, with each LCARS terminal configured specifically for the task at hand but manipulated in a very Minority Report-ish way.
Our machines are becoming faster, more powerful with the arrival of multicores. what are we going to do with all that power? our future machines will allow for better ways of interacting with our data, a more stimulating experience communicating with our friends, family and business contacts.
Future User Interfaces will liberate us from boring device-interfaces and spur creativity in designing appropriate but exciting human-computer interaction. More than ever, every person becomes a node on the network and more importantly, for both work and play, we get to touch our data.
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