{"id":20111,"date":"2017-10-20T22:41:49","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T22:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/?p=305582"},"modified":"2017-10-24T07:12:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T07:12:35","slug":"a-sneak-peak-at-radical-future-user-interfaces-for-phones-computers-and-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2017\/10\/20\/a-sneak-peak-at-radical-future-user-interfaces-for-phones-computers-and-vr\/","title":{"rendered":"A sneak peak at radical future user interfaces for phones, computers, and VR"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Grabity: a wearable haptic interface for simulating weight and grasping in VR (credit: UIST 2017)<\/p><\/div>\n

Drawing in air, touchless control of virtual objects, and\u00a0a modular mobile phone<\/a> with snap-in sections (for lending to friends, family members, or even strangers) are among the innovative user-interface concepts to be introduced at the 30th ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium<\/a> (UIST 2017) on October 22–25 in Quebec City, Canada.<\/p>\n

Here are three concepts to be presented, developed by researchers at Dartmouth College’s human computer interface lab.<\/p>\n

Retroshape: tactile watch feedback
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Darthmouth’s Retroshape<\/a> concept would add a shape-deforming tactile feedback system to the back of a future watch, allowing you to both see and feel virtual objects, such as a bouncing ball or exploding asteroid. Each pixel on RetroShape’s screen has a corresponding “taxel” (tactile pixel) on the back of the watch, using 16 independently moving pins.<\/p>\n