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Every TECH is about interaction of human with the machines or devices...
Whether it is touch, voice or something other, just interaction!
And that makes our life easy, smart and efficient - the TECH of the world.
Tarun Mangukiya
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Funny technology never made our lives simpler - we're "Always Connected", "Always working", and "Never (Get to) sleep"
Gen X boast "Work hard Play hard", nowadays, most just get to "Work hard".
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Yup! It is.
Tarun Mangukiya
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I'm not talking about funny technology...
It's about user experience, how do one want to use the technology, and what is the easiest way to fulfil one's task...
Tarun Mangukiya
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The future will likely be a combination of touch, voice and keyboard/mouse. The answers to the poll weren't thought out very well and it highlights how slow people are at seeing further than the next hot gadget.
Touch devices are great, for some things, but they are also extremely limited and downright horrible for most serious operations. You aren't using touch devices to type reports, you can't use current touch for long term typing, we need that tactile interface for efficient typing.
Most of the testing that has been done over the past 5 years shows that touch lacks resolution for many, many operations. It's quite evident when we look at what graphic artists are using for digital pads with a pen/stylus. (at least the ones I know)
Gestures will likely be another form of specialized interfacing, great for some but horrible for most. Many people who use this type of interface for even more than 10-15 minutes report fatigue. (No, it's not an 'in shape' problem)
It may be corny, but I see interfaces like what we all saw in TNG, voice, tactile and touch combinations.
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"People who think Touch will be THE future aren't really thinking"
To be polite, I think you should correct that word 'people' to 'people like me' coz it's obvious that touch screens would dominate...don't you see the latest gadgets, right from year 2008, most new Mobile devices produced are of touch gesture directly or indirectly...ranging form the Nokia c4 to Blackberry 10...
Windows 8 touch laptops are not out of the touch family...Mobile Phone Wristwatches, car Stereo , game consoles...much more coming...So why say "People who think Touch will be THE future aren't really thinking"...I think you should think and correct that to this "People like me who think Touch will be THE future aren't really thinking"
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You didn't really read the entire post, just the subject otherwise you would have picked up what I said about how touch is great for some devices but it will not be THE future and it will likely be a combination of input paradigms that we'll see. Narrowing the scope to just Touch is just asinine.
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The future is hand gesture. Long live to leap motion, and I'm not saying it because they sent one to me... That's really cool, and will get better with time.
More precisely, I think that the market is in a consolidation phase with all this touch hype : everybody tried to use the same idiom for everything, and companies are killing their own great product to unify everything. (Google reader, XNA, silverlight comes to my mind)
This was caused by an economic regression rather than a technologic evolution.
I feel that when enconomic will get better and better, we will enter in a new diversification phase, where all the different input method will be widely used in their best light and use. Be it mouse, touch, hand gesture , or body gesture.
Then no f***ing salesman will say my app is "legacy". grmbl.....
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Nicolas Dorier wrote: The future is hand gesture
And what does the future look like for those who feel silly waving their hands at some computer all day?
Sent from my BatComputer via HAL 9000 and M5
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The current and next few generations of touch pc's are stepping stones. Right now its unergonomic for general usage, and only has a specific limited use-case where it makes sense.
But assuming we do want what the movies keep showing, of computers hidden in the building, or star trek type 'desks', we need to build up the tech. Right now the touch we can do is to limited, and the OS's are to rigid (we need them to be more adapting to the task at hand).
So for me touch will just be a feature I ignore...and given I see Windows 8's Modern UI for about 2secs, its gonna stay that way for a while!
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Is this better Idea against touch screen PC and Laptops 
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If you are working for example with a large screen which of course would be just a tad further than reaching with your hand, touch is stripped from it's meaning doesn't it?
So it leaves us with only No or It Depends basically. (and the bla bla of no opinion etc)
Cheees,
Edo
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I don't see users having to actually touch screens for very long. Gesturing will surpass touchscreen UI's soon. Keyboards (either physical, or projected onto any flat surface) + gesturing are the future. The mouse is dead.
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I Kind of agree. Look at how Kinect is shaping things. Added to that perceptual computing is on the rise. The only thing to get around is airspace and not knocking over your colleagues or tea when you want to switch windows or move objects around.... oh and the strange behaviour of flappin about like a salmon out of water! 
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I Agree. Have you guys checked out the new Leap Motion stuff. gadgets like that, well of course long time until we see them in the common market will take off touch screens.
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It's certainly not everything, there's a lot of hype surrounding it in recent years but so what?
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Although I generally believe at this time that "it depends" is the best answer, I love my touchscreen on my hybird laptop (Envy x2). I can best relate this to back in the 80's when the computer mouse first starting getting used. Until Windows 3 came along, I had little if any use for a mouse. Now I couldn't live without one. Especially, for hybrid laptops, the touchscreen provides a utility that the mouse alone can't. I personally fought the touchscreen but am now warming up to it - thought it was just a gimmick. I am becoming a believer that it can make me more productive, which in the end is the purpose of a computer.
Tom Gueth
Knowledge Resource
Binary Star Technology, Inc
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I agree with Tom Gueth.
With regards,
Manoj
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We had a touch PC onsite and spent a day using it as if it was a tablet. All of the test people found their arm getting too tired after a short period of time. What is good for a tablet isn't good for everything in the world. That is why Windows 8 is failing.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I'd also doubt one would have the same speed; nothing beats a practiced user on a keyboard.
You mouse over to that "X", I'll press ALT-F4. You mouse to the taskbar, I'll ALT-TAB. You mouse to "Cancel", I'll press ESC. Most annoying is it when looking at someone filling out a form, and using the mouse to navigate controls. TAB, TAB, TAB!!
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Most annoying is it when looking at someone filling out a form, and using the mouse to navigate controls. TAB, TAB, TAB!!
Sure, sure, however I find the absolute worst thing to navigate using keyboard only, are web pages. It is probably possible to navigate through the posts on this page by only using the keyboard, but man it is a pain!
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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SoMad wrote: It is probably possible to navigate through the posts on this page by only using the keyboard, but man it is a pain!
Really? I find it really easy: CTRL + LEFT & RIGHT for Prev / Next message, and CTRL + UP & DOWN for Prev / Next thread.
I find it quicker than the mouse, to be honest.
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
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And Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right to switch pages. Alright, I admit I picked a bad example and had forgotten about these commands - they are listed right there at the bottom of the page, but I always use the mouse. I don't know if there are similar commands for navigating my banking site or the Home Depot site, etc.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I agree - but that is down to bad UI design, rather than a limitation of the input device(s).
I find this site a bit of a pain to navigate on my Nexus 7 to be honest - if the text is a reasonable size, many of the functions are too small to activate cleanly with something as inaccurate as a finger!
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
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OriginalGriff wrote: that is down to bad UI design
Well, it's also me. I admire those who know all the shortcut keys in Visual Studio and Word, but I only know the most basic.
How do you handle mouse-hover stuff on the Nexus? It took me a lot of experimentation to figure out how to red-flag in QA, not to mention how to up-/downvote on forum posts. Quite tricky when the arrows are hidden if the mouse is not inside the message.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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