Microsoft Research's Bill Buxton on Natural User Interfaces

Excerpt from http://research.microsoft.com/en-US/about/feature/nui-video.aspx

In a video about new ways to design natural user interfaces, Bill Buxton, principal researcher for Microsoft Research, explains how engineers can use a combination of interactive gestures and communication methods to enable a society of appliances to assist users of technology.

"Its not about speech, its not about gesture, its not even about the phone, and its not about human-to-human communication, Buxton says. How these things work together in a natural and seamless way that reduces complexity for the users—thats what were about. Getting these things right opens up another dimension in how we have technology integrated into our lives."

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Science & Technology

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• microsoft
• research
• bill
• buxton
• natural
• user
• interface
• UI
• UX

[jnrolf]

Wonderful New Ideas!

[omegaprophecy88]

hes a mastermind!

[katheryncruz24]

Amazing.

[adelle0001]

nice speech!

[Louiselessel]

yeah.. I'm pretty sure that would leave me disoriented and dazed. The example with the paper was good though.

[carnagerpm]

I know you guys consider a phone shooting out fireworks pretty exciting, but its the simple things like this is what has a dramatic effect on technology as a whole. Just as example, did you think a search engine that indexes its pages by the amount of links linking to that one page/site exciting? No....but thats google.

[Rishix01]

He's a mastermind.

[liomessibarca10]

cool

[olli2591]

Can't see the big new thing bout this. And ask myself if this also works on moving vehicles. But can't imagine someone using this...Microsoft, just wait for Apple, they'll make the next big thing, and than you can copy it, so just stop doin your research, it's useless...:D

[projohn123]

Inspiring speech. How genius are they!