Publicly and privately, Microsoft officials have been making much of the company's myriad multi-touch input projects (especially with Windows 7 and Windows Mobile 7). But Microsoft's view of what the ...

Microsoft's research labs have been known to create some pretty wild projects. Granted, not all of them have hit the market or anything, but there's a good chance that something huge down the road ...

Of course, the most natural user interface of all would be when the computer can read your mind with no effort on the user’s part. This is the promise of research around brain-computer interaction.

Jennifer Roland is a freelance writer with a passion for ed tech. As technology manufacturers ­design the latest gadgets to control televisions, video game systems and even computers, many find ...

Mary Jo Foley is reporting that Microsoft is taking its Natural-User-Interface and not segmenting it to just touch, or just multi-touch, or just a stylus, or just speech, but kind of mashing it up ...

The scope and iPad represent just two of the many types of interfaces we work with. Fueling the range of variation is the trend toward natural user interfaces (NUIs) found in several consumer devices.

Steve Ballmer had an interesting post on The Huffington Post, timed to run with the buzz generated by his CES2010 keynote, that by most accounts fell somewhat flat. He focuses on the Natural User ...

You know how things can sneak up on you, particularly trends. There are dribs and drabs and all of a sudden a swirling tornado of evidence that something is happening? I have had that experience these ...

When you first see Leap Motion in action (video below), you think that the developers drew their inspiration straight from the Steven Spielberg / Tom Cruise movie, Minority Report. Tom Cruise in ...

One application’s NUI will probably not be appropriate for another’s. Even though touch screens are the basis forsome of today’s most effective NUIs, such as those found on smartphones, tablet PCs and ...

Following a new trend in television interaction, Infosys showed new ways to allow consumers to experience television via multi-channel “natural user interfaces” (NUI) at the Cable Show in Boston.