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Minority Report's Legacy of Terrible Interfaces
jfruh writes "More than a decade ago, the special effects artists working the Steven Spielberg film Minority Report synthesized experimental thinking about GUIs to produce a floating interface that Tom Cruise manipulated with his hands. In 2013, surrounded by iOS and Android and Windows 8 devices, we use stripped down versions of this interface every day — and commercial artist Christian Brown thinks that's a bad thing. Such devices may look cinematic, he argues, but they completely ignore the kinds of haptic and textured feedback that have defined how we interact with devices for centuries."
Speaking of Minority Report interfaces — a new armband sensor using a gesture-based control scheme is the latest gadget to invoke references to the movie.
What's wrong with looking cinematic? At least people would think I'm doing something when I'm trolling around Slashdot.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Hackers obviously had the best interface. Why look for a file in an alphabetical list when you can glide around virtual skyscrapers randomly searching for info?
It's perfect.
Your mom?
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
Their GUI seems pretty damn powerful to me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU
Surely you mean four touchdowns in a single game?
For example, in China a red envelope is a good thing to receive, whereas in the UK it's a final demand for a bill. An owl signifies intelligence in most of Europe, evil in parts of latin America, and stupidity in much of Asia
Yet another reason why there should be one world language (UK English) and one world culture (UK/English).
I leave my location as an exercise for the reader.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it