Speaking of piling it higher and deeper, here’s a video demo from Bump Top for a 3D desktop computing interface that utilizes pen-centric techniques to manipulate documents.
The metaphors for navigating and organizing files in this demonstration really tickle my fancy. To wit, manipulation techniques include: Tidy Piles, Pigtail Gestures, Drag n’Cross, Dwell and Scrub, and Exploding Piles, to name but a few. There are also leafing widgets, messy/tidy widgets, and techniques that allow the user to crease, fold, and crumple documents or pin them to the wall.
Quite amazing really.
Anand Agarawalla, Bump Top’s creator, presented at TED 2007.
My questions include:
- Has anybody besides Anand played with such an interface?
- Can I use the pen-centric techniques to interface directly on my screen?
- Is this only useable on a notebook computer?
- Can I do this with a mouse?
- Is this an answer in search of a question?
- Why are we still thinking in terms of desktops?
- When can I simply navigate via voice command?
Thoughts?
