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 ...

Beth Bacheldor is a freelance journalist based out of North Carolina with more than 20 years of experience in covering IT news. The computing interfaces featured in movies such as Minority Report and ...

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.

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 ...

I’m a huge fan of natural user interface technologies (NUI) such as pen, ink, touch, multi-touch, speech, etc. I especially love exploring the technical and usability issues that NUI present. As such, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Natural UI expert Tim Huckaby live-demonstrated at Visual Studio Live! in Austin this week some well-developed but primitive NUI capabilities with his phone that show what is capable in the very near ...

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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.

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 ...