Comments on: The Death of the Mouse http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/the-death-of-the-mouse/ A New O'Reilly Book by Dan Saffer Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:19:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: 2008 September 25 - Links for today « My (almost) Daily Links http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/the-death-of-the-mouse/#comment-242 2008 September 25 - Links for today « My (almost) Daily Links Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:49:08 +0000 http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/the-death-of-the-mouse/#comment-242 [...] Dan Saffer anticipates The Death of the Mouse [...] […] Dan Saffer anticipates The Death of the Mouse […]

]]> By: Dan http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/the-death-of-the-mouse/#comment-241 Dan Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:45:37 +0000 http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/the-death-of-the-mouse/#comment-241 Fingers are decidedly less accurate than a mouse or stylus. Either there will have to be compensations made for that (a UI widget that "sharpens" the finger to a stylus-like point or interfaces changing to accommodate the wider finger size), or else the mouse/stylus will likely persist for specific tasks, such as design work. Fingers are decidedly less accurate than a mouse or stylus. Either there will have to be compensations made for that (a UI widget that “sharpens” the finger to a stylus-like point or interfaces changing to accommodate the wider finger size), or else the mouse/stylus will likely persist for specific tasks, such as design work.

]]> By: scottcorey http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/the-death-of-the-mouse/#comment-240 scottcorey Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:18:46 +0000 http://www.designinggesturalinterfaces.com/posts/the-death-of-the-mouse/#comment-240 I am a CAD worker, and while I can't speak for all other CAD workers, I personally doubt the death of the mouse. I understand the concept of multi-touch and the power of gestural moves, but doubt the precision of my fat little fingers versus the scalable precision of a mouse. In fact there are still new tools being designed for manipulating interface that are not touch based, like the Space Mouse. I'm unsure how the functions of a 3 axis device could be replicated through a flat touch surface. My final point is probably overused, but with newer touch interfaces sharing screen surface there could be 2 effects. The first (positive) is direct "sketch" manipulation where a person can access the tools on the screen directly and act as a real sketch pad. The second (negative) is that while interfacing with this sketch pad I am reducing the size of the screen I am working on and blocking parts of my view. As a side note, maybe the DS got it right with one touch screen and one static screen. I mean of course for designers... they definitely got it right for game design. I am a CAD worker, and while I can’t speak for all other CAD workers, I personally doubt the death of the mouse. I understand the concept of multi-touch and the power of gestural moves, but doubt the precision of my fat little fingers versus the scalable precision of a mouse.

In fact there are still new tools being designed for manipulating interface that are not touch based, like the Space Mouse. I’m unsure how the functions of a 3 axis device could be replicated through a flat touch surface.

My final point is probably overused, but with newer touch interfaces sharing screen surface there could be 2 effects. The first (positive) is direct “sketch” manipulation where a person can access the tools on the screen directly and act as a real sketch pad. The second (negative) is that while interfacing with this sketch pad I am reducing the size of the screen I am working on and blocking parts of my view.

As a side note, maybe the DS got it right with one touch screen and one static screen. I mean of course for designers… they definitely got it right for game design.

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