User Interfaces

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September 2008

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Importance of the Technology

The Technology in Brief

• System-Level Technologies
  • Human-Machine Dialogue
  • Virtual Environments
  • Shared Virtual Worlds
  • 3DTV, 3-D Movies, and Immersive Rides
  • Gesture Recognition
  • Haptic Systems
  • Tangible User Interfaces
  • Augmented Reality
  • Mixed Reality
  • Human Enhancement
  • Telepresence
  • Teleoperation: Action at a Distance
  • Remote Sensing
• Wearable Technologies
• Neural and Bioelectric Interfaces
  • Noninvasive Interfaces
  • Neural Implants
  • Electrocorticography
• 3-D Displays and Related Technologies
  • Stereoscopic, Autostereoscopic, and Multiview Displays
  • Holographic Displays
  • Volumetric Displays
  • Real-Image Displays
  • Hidden Screens and Floating Images
  • Motion Parallax
• Multitouch Displays
• Near-Eye Displays
• Flexible Displays
• Pocket Projectors
• Mirror Displays
• Alternative Devices for Text Entry
• Pen Input
• Alternative Keyboard Designs
• Navigation of 3-D Virtual Worlds
• Flight-Simulator Controllers
• 6DOF Controllers
• Free-Space Position Tracking
• Position and Motion Detection
  • Accelerometers
  • Gyroscopes
• Short-Range and Local-Area Presence, Position, and Location Technologies
• Wide-Area Geolocation
  • Satellite Geolocation
  • Cell-Phone Geolocation
  • Geolocation via LANs
  • Geolocation via Terrestrial Broadcasts

Commercial Development Parameters

• Demand Factors
• General Constraints
• Synergistic Technologies
• Competing Technologies
• Required Resources
• Regulatory Factors

Areas to Monitor

• Conditions That Are Likely in All Future Scenarios
• New Ways to Navigate and Manipulate Objects in Virtual Worlds
• Personal Touch Screens
• Expanded Use of Zoomable User Interfaces
• Conditions That Vary Greatly Across Scenarios
• 3-D GUIs
• Speech Control of In-Vehicle Electronics
• Speech Dialogue
• Handheld Replacement for Notebook PCs
• Gesture-Based Interaction for Nongame Applications
• Head-Up Displays in Vehicles
• Emotive Talking News and Books
• Wild Cards: Unlikely Events That Would Dramatically Transform Markets
• Stereoscopic TV
• Humanlike Intelligent Agents
• Head-Mounted Augmented Reality
• Far-Field Brainwave/MRI Readings
• Elective Implants for Nonhandicapped Persons

Implications of Commercialization

• Mobile Helpers
• Virtual Life
• Smart Spaces
• Mind Interfacing
• Mixed Reality
• Suspended Animation

Opportunities

• Applications
• Speech Interfaces and Human-Machine Dialogues
• Simultaneous Voice and Data
• Flexible Displays
• Pocket Projectors
• Near-Eye Displays
• Touch Screens and Multitouch Surfaces
• Gesture Recognition
• Stereoscopic Displays
• Holographic Displays and Related Technologies
• Virtual Worlds
• Wireless Pens
• Personal RFID Tags and Readers
• Camera-Phone Image Recognition for Location and Object ID
• Augmented Reality
• Interfacing with the Mind and Brain
• Business Models
• Nintendo's Wii Remote
• Immersion's VibeTonz Haptic Games

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