Microsoft Surface (codename Milan) is a multi-touch product that responds to natural hand gestures and real-world objects, helping people interact with digital content in a simple and intuitive way. Leave the mouse and keyboard behind. Surface lets you grab digital content with your hands and move information with simple gestures and touches.
It has a 360-degree user interface, a 30-inch reflective surface with a XGA DLP projector underneath the surface which projects an image onto its underside, while five cameras in the machine's housing record reflections of infrared light from objects and human fingertips on the surface. The surface is capable of object recognition, object/finger orientation recognition and tracking, and is multi-touch and is multi-user. Users can interact with the machine by touching or dragging their fingertips and objects such as paintbrushes across the screen, or by placing and moving placed objects. This paradigm of interaction with computers is known as a natural user interface (NUI).
Features:
1- Direct interaction refers to the user's ability to simply reach out and touch the interface of an application in order to interact with it, without the need for a mouse or keyboard. Multi-touch contact refers to the ability to have multiple contact points with an interface, unlike with a mouse, where there is only one cursor.
2- The technology allows non-digital objects to be used as input devices. In one example, a normal paint brush was used to create a digital painting in the software.
3- A unique feature that comes preinstalled with Surface is the pond effect "Attract" application. Simply, it is a "picture" of water with leaves and rocks within it (a lot like a screen saver used in Windows XP or Vista). By touching the screen, users can create ripples in the water, much like a real stream. Additionally, the pressure of touch alters the size of the ripple created, and objects placed into the water create a barrier that ripples bounce off, just as they would in real life.
1- Direct interaction refers to the user's ability to simply reach out and touch the interface of an application in order to interact with it, without the need for a mouse or keyboard. Multi-touch contact refers to the ability to have multiple contact points with an interface, unlike with a mouse, where there is only one cursor.
2- The technology allows non-digital objects to be used as input devices. In one example, a normal paint brush was used to create a digital painting in the software.
3- A unique feature that comes preinstalled with Surface is the pond effect "Attract" application. Simply, it is a "picture" of water with leaves and rocks within it (a lot like a screen saver used in Windows XP or Vista). By touching the screen, users can create ripples in the water, much like a real stream. Additionally, the pressure of touch alters the size of the ripple created, and objects placed into the water create a barrier that ripples bounce off, just as they would in real life.
7 comments:
I guess, this technology is just like other touch screen technology.But it seems a little bit different.people can create their own world just by touching at the screen either with hand or other object
I must admit, this is quite fascinating..the fact that it 'allows non-digital objects to be used as input devices' shows how much technology have evolved.
But i must question the purpose of the preinstalled pond effect application. what's the point of having that?
I agree with both of you. Although nowadays many touch screen devices have been produced,but this new invention has more function in it.
does anybody knows what are the differences between Natural User Interface(NUI) and the Graphical User Interface(GUI)
Wahidah Abdul Rahman
1016486
the size is quite big..if we want to use it outside,i think there will be some difficulties..this tech also takes a lots of space because of the large size..
Wahidah Abdul Rahman
1016486
i think, if this surface stuck with viruses or holding too many files that fill up the RAM, users might feel irritated by the perfomance of the surface, would it?
at first place, people will be happy to have this kind of technology, but when it comes to this matter, people would't able to be patient if the thing that they want to glide does't move even a little..
siti nur'aqilah bt mahamad nor
1011504
How come if somebody who want to use it does not have hands? Just asking, if there are any solutions or other initiative?
~ Siti 'Aishah Jauhara bt Surtahman
~ 1017106
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