South by Southwest 2011 presentation by Amish Patel and Kay Hofmeester about the future of touch.

1. The Future of Touch Interaction at SXSW 2011 South by Southwest Interactive 2011 # sxsw #futureoftouch

2. Who are we… Amish Patel UX Program Manager Kay Hofmeester User Experience Design Lead

3. Who are we… We work at Microsoft But this is not about Microsoft

4. Today’s journey ... which needs to be developed … Realizing touch is a language … … enables us to see into the future.

5. Appendix Touch is a language image by Assbach

7. On-screen pointer

8. Single-channel input

9. Multi-channel output

10. Single User

11. Text commands

12. Single-channel input

13. Single-channel output

14. Single User

15. Direct touch input

16. Multi-channel input

17. Multi-channel output

20. Input languages develop in stages

21. Three stages of media New technology Copy old language New language Stage one Stage two Stage three inspired by Randy Pausch

22. 1877: EadweardMuybridge – The horse in motion

23. 1895: American Biograph and Mutoscope co. Images courtesy the Library of Congress

24. 1941: Citizen Kane

25. Appendix Mouse

26. 1968 Douglas C. Engelbart 1968 First mouse by Douglas Engelbart

28. 1977: Command line interface with mouse adopted

29. 1973: Xerox PARC Alto, 1984: MacIntosh 128K

30. Appendix Touch

31. 1972: Plato IV touch screen terminal

32. Touch is in stage two

33. Are we still in stage two? WTF!

34. Touch is still emulating mouse

35. Touch is still emulating hardware keyboard

36. Touch is still using scrolling and scroll bars

37. New technology Copy old language New language Stage one Stage two Stage three

38. Combine gestures with keyboard

39. Copy real life

40. We are all trying to get to stage three

41. Our pathto get tostage three Multi-touch Body-aware Multi-modal

42. Body-aware

45. Multi-touch

47. Multi-modal “Every input method is best for something and worst for something else.” Bill Buxton touch and pen touch and speech touch and air + + +

50. On screen pointer

51. Single-channel input

52. Multi-channel output

53. Single User

54. Direct Touch Input

55. Multi-channel input

56. Multi-channel output

57. Multi-user

58. Text commands

59. Single-channel input

60. Single-channel output

61. Single User

62. Touch

63. Voice

64. Air / Movement Gestures

65. Sensor Input

66. Multi-channel in and out