Wednesday, December 30, 2009

A possibility of 10/GUI: Smooth but sticky


A possibility of 10/GUI. 10GUI suggests new interface with multi-touch gesture. We has used the interface with the mouse for over thirty years, so it is the time for change. However, I think that it is important for us to "grab" something physical like the mouse in order to operate the image on the display which we can not grab or hold. I consider that "grabbing" and "touching" are entirely different actions in human history. Therefore, our body may feel "grabbing" the mouse and multi-"touch" when we use the computer. But, I get used to the MacBook's glass trackpad and operate the image on the display like using the mouse. I do not superficially feel incongruity. When I pay deep attention to my body, however, I feel something strange between using the mouse and the trackpad, especially scrolling. Using the mouse, I feel "grabbing" the scroll bar for up and down. With trackpad, I feel that my fingers "stick to" the image on the display. Therefore, I feel odd when the scroll bar moving up and down because I do not "grab" it but just "touch". Although the human has "grabbed" something in order to move it for the long time, our fingers seldom stick to something in order to move it in daily life. I write "Stick to", however, it doesn't work if our fingers actually stick to the trackpad. Consequently, the trackpad must be smooth. I think that Apple made the glass trackpad for multi-touch due to pursuing the smooth and many people enjoy its feelings. While we use the trackpad, our body feel that it is smooth even though sticking to it in the bottom. "Smooth but sticky" makes us curious because of its newness and gives us something pleasant. On the other hand, it may cause the rejection in our body. In my case, touching trackpad is pleasant to my fingers and body in almost time but I sometimes feel something strange.

Back to 10/GUI. 10/GUI is good design for the image on the display in order to operate with our fingers. Therefore, many people interested in it. At first I think that  it is difficult to operate with multi-touch, but many user would get used to do soon. What it the material for 10/GUI's keyboard which is like a big trackpad? Is it the glass like MacBook's one? Our finger has high sensibility for touch, so the material which we directly touch is very important: we need always smooth. However, I don't know from this concept movie.

Moreover, if our body get used to multi-touch, we will get new body sense for the moving image. Once we get this new sense, we don't need to touch something in order to operate the image on the display, in other words, the computer like Tom Cruise in Minority Report. Anyway, I'm looking forward that multi-touch gesture open new future for us.

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