Jennifer Roland is a freelance writer with a passion for ed tech. As technology manufacturers ­design the latest gadgets to control televisions, video game systems and even computers, many find ...

Mary Jo Foley is reporting that Microsoft is taking its Natural-User-Interface and not segmenting it to just touch, or just multi-touch, or just a stylus, or just speech, but kind of mashing it up ...

Of course, the most natural user interface of all would be when the computer can read your mind with no effort on the user’s part. This is the promise of research around brain-computer interaction.

Publicly and privately, Microsoft officials have been making much of the company's myriad multi-touch input projects (especially with Windows 7 and Windows Mobile 7). But Microsoft's view of what the ...

The scope and iPad represent just two of the many types of interfaces we work with. Fueling the range of variation is the trend toward natural user interfaces (NUIs) found in several consumer devices.

Microsoft's research labs have been known to create some pretty wild projects. Granted, not all of them have hit the market or anything, but there's a good chance that something huge down the road ...

Microsoft‘s Kinect for Xbox 360 ditched handheld controllers for gestures and sound, but natural user interfaces don’t have to be restricted to video games. That’s what Microsoft’s research group said ...

When you first see Leap Motion in action (video below), you think that the developers drew their inspiration straight from the Steven Spielberg / Tom Cruise movie, Minority Report. Tom Cruise in ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Following a new trend in television interaction, Infosys showed new ways to allow consumers to ...

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 a presentation at the conclusion of ...

One application’s NUI will probably not be appropriate for another’s. Even though touch screens are the basis forsome of today’s most effective NUIs, such as those found on smartphones, tablet PCs and ...