Comment Gestures and Brianwaves are cool, but not the key. (Score 1) 368
OK so a lot of people have pointed out various devices that rely on gestures like gloves and such as imput devices that will alow us to break out of the WIMP box, but have any of these people played Black and White? I don't know about evryone else, but those gestures wern't 100% or for me 80%. Researchers have been using brainwaves to control computers for quite some time, and have been quite succesful at it, but it takes a heck of a lot of learning to be able to move the pointer to the left third of a screen. The problem here is precision. Even if you control your pointer with a finger in a glove, it still is stuck in the WIMP realm.
The only way I can see of breaking out of the WIMP box any time soon is by voice recognition and understanding combined with the ability for the computer to produce an educated response or graph. I'm not just talking about simple command like "open word" or "begin dictation", but having a computer answer a question like. "Who do the Mariners play next week?" It wouldn't be enough to just add voice recognition to Ask Jeeves because if you do the computer will say some thing stupid like "Don't you mean to say: Where can I download MP3 players for Windows?" (try it) This sort of thing is a possibility it requires a lot of AI, but adding more AI into a user interface reduces the amount af precision movement needed to control a computer, and will allow us to break away from WIMP.
The only way I can see of breaking out of the WIMP box any time soon is by voice recognition and understanding combined with the ability for the computer to produce an educated response or graph. I'm not just talking about simple command like "open word" or "begin dictation", but having a computer answer a question like. "Who do the Mariners play next week?" It wouldn't be enough to just add voice recognition to Ask Jeeves because if you do the computer will say some thing stupid like "Don't you mean to say: Where can I download MP3 players for Windows?" (try it) This sort of thing is a possibility it requires a lot of AI, but adding more AI into a user interface reduces the amount af precision movement needed to control a computer, and will allow us to break away from WIMP.
