Summary 6

HCI ( Human-computer interaction )


Nintendo Wii

Plain, A good example is Nintendo Wii. Nintendo Wii has good HCI itself but the properer example is Johnny Lee's Wiimote hack project. Johnny Lee try to use wonderful HCI in computer by hacking Wiimote, Wii's controller.


Microsoft Surface

This is well-known microsoft's surface computing. The first opening to public is surface home version called 'Tabletop'. This moving picture is labtop computer applying surface technology.
In a nutshell, surface technology is a system that perceive movement by sensing infrared signal, not by using capacitive or registive overlay.


iPhone

iPhone is showing capacitive touch type well. This moving picture is short and impressive.


Physical Display with Ferromagnetic Fluid.

German interaction and interface designer Martin Frey(CabBoots, JITWatch) created SnOil, a physical display using programmable ferromagnetic fluid.
SnOil is a name mixing snake and oil.