VUI01: Using Natural User Interface (NUI) Technologies to

Improve User Experience

Tim HuckabyFounder / Chairman, InterKnowlogyFounder / CEO, Actus SoftwareMicrosoft RD & MVP

About Tim…InterKnowlogy (www.InterKnowlogy.com)• Tim Huckaby, Founder/Chairman (TimHuck@InterKnowlogy.com)

● Custom Application Development / Consulting / Software & Systems Engineering Firm headquartered in Carlsbad, CA

● Design, Architect, Build and Deploy Enterprise Class Applications ● Industry Experts:

•Most of the employees are published, MVPs, RD, Speakers, etc.•Microsoft .NET Application development since 2000•Microsoft .NET Rich Client Pioneers / Industry Leaders•Microsoft Touch Application Development Leaders (Surface / Windows 7 / Silverlight 3)•Information Worker Solutions (VSTO & SharePoint)•Integration / Messaging, B2B / B2C, Wireless / Mobility •Leading Edge: Surface, WPF, Silverlight, Win7 touch, SharePoint, VSTO•Cutting Edge Solutions on emerging Microsoft technologies•Largest Client: Microsoft

Actus Software (www.Actus-Software.com)• Tim Huckaby, Founder/CEO (TimHuck@Actus-Software.com)

•Software Product Company, Coming soon…

A little bit about me and why I am here…

Touch Capable Computing: Using Natural User Interface (NUI) Technologies Improve The User Experience

Multi-Touch Software built in Microsoft .NET: WPF, Surface, Silverlight, & the phone…

Hardware & Software Platforms for Touch Computing

Multi-Touch enabled applications used to improve the communication, education and user experience across the software continuum. 

Presentation Agenda

Demos, Demos, Demos

About the Computer I am Using Today…

• Acer Aspire 1420P• Give away “free” to all attendees at the

PDC• One year old…• Price in October-2009: $420• Price in November-2009: $350

• Tim Huckaby• Founder / Chairman, InterKnowlogy• Founder / CEO, Actus Software• Microsoft RD & MVP VIDEO

Multi-Touch ScatterView Photos Application

• Tim Huckaby• Founder, InterKnowlogy & Actus Software• Microsoft RD & MVP

DEMO

The InterKnowlogy “Firebrick” Silverlight Multi-Touch ScatterView Control

• What is it? ● It’s a Silverlight Control for Intuitive & Comprehensive Multi-Touch Object Manipulation for your Web

Applications.

• Download Site: http://firebrick.interknowlogy.com/• Example Problem(s) it solves:

● Silverlight’s Touch API • Is rudimentary at best. Basically the API gives you “I know something has been touched; but, I don’t know what or where.”• Is difficult; takes a ton of programming to implement at any significant level

● The Silverlight Multi-Touch ScatterView Control• Makes building a Multi-Touch capable application “Brain-dead simple” in a matter of minutes• Contains all the “heavy lifting”: thousands of lines of calculus and trigonometry• Contains a sample application and detailed “How-to” documentation

• Installation Notes: ● Free Developer and Low Cost ($99) production versions available

• Usage Notes: Multi-Touch is supported in SL3 and above and currently only on Windows 7

Touch Capable Computing Devices are Not New

Past Future (Now)

Present

1972: PLATO IV Touch Screen Terminal

The Microsoft Surface

Windows 7 Multi-touch

What is Relatively New is: Inexpensive Touch Capable, Non

Proprietary Hardware A Multi-Touch Capable Windows OS A Consistent Multi-Touch API

for .NET across 3 Windows Hardware/Software Platforms

Developer Productivity in Touch Capable Apps

The Forecast of Touch Capability in Every New Computing Device in the Short Term

• Tim Huckaby• Founder / Chairman, InterKnowlogy• Founder / CEO, Actus Software• Microsoft RD & MVP

Surface WPF 3D:The Scripps Research InstituteVitruView

VIDEO

History of Surface

2003The first prototype is presented to Bill Gates

2004A dedicated group is formed,

and more than 85 prototypes are developed

2007Microsoft Surface is unveiled to the world 

2001The concept of an interactive table is born

2005The look and feel of Surface is finalized

2011?

Single Touch vs. Multi-Touch• You get single touch “for free” in Windows 7

● Almost everywhere in Windows 7, a touch = a mouse click

• Multi-Touch is the capability to recognize 2 or more fingers on the screen at once.● The iPhone made the “pinch gesture” a cultural

norm in usability● Vernacular on hardware capability: “4 touches”

TOUCHHARDWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS

CapacitiveInfraredResistive

Sample Hardware

CapacitiveHP Touchsmart tx2N-trig (2-10)

InfraredHP Touchsmart IQ816NewWindow(2)

CapacitiveDell LatitudeXT2N-Trig (2-10)

How to touch Resistive Think Push Down and drag

How to touch

Capacitive Think Electric Impulse

Common hardware implementations

• Capacitive

● iPhone / iTouch – Capacitive multi-touch cell phone / PDA

● HP TouchSmart TX2 – Dual touch capacitive laptop screen.

● Dell Latitude XT – Multi-Touch tablet using N-Trig capacitive technology

● MacBook Pro – Capacitive Multi-Touch pad with traditional click

● N-Trig – Capacitive monitor overlay vendor (Windows 7 Drivers)

How to touch

Infrared Think laser pointer(s)

Common hardware implementations• Infrared

● Surface – Infrared diffused illumination multi-touch “table” device

● Perceptive Pixel – Frustrated total internal reflection multi-touch panels

● HP TouchSmart – Infrared dual touch bezel all in one computer

● NextWindow – Infrared Multi-Touch bezel vendor (Windows 7 Drivers)

NUI GESTURES• Tap• Flick/Fling/Scroll• Pinch/Spread• Drag

• Tim Huckaby• Founder / Chairman, InterKnowlogy• Founder / CEO, Actus Software• Microsoft RD & MVP

Surface Craps

VIDEO

SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS(ON THE MICROSOFT PLATFORM)

Windows Desktop: WPFSurface: WPFBrowser: SilverlightPhone: The Windows Mobile 7 phone

NUIMulti-Touch Scenarios

Touch Scenarios and Windows 7Developer Platform At the root is the touch developer

platform that exposes touch APIs for any application

UI Enhancements Focusing on core scenarios, many

parts of the core UI optimized for touch experiences

Gestures Multitouch gestures enable consistent

panning and zooming in most applications

Applications Powerful Multitouch-focused

applications to ship separately from Windows 7

Key Scenarios for Multitouch

Focused on Consumption

Navigating and consuming the Web

Reading and sorting email

Viewing photos Playing casual

games Consuming music

and video Navigating files

and arranging windows

Using Microsoft Office Applications

VitruView – Badge AuthenticationMicrosoft Surface

VitruView – 3D manipulationMicrosoft Surface

VitruView – Adding annotations with the Virtual Keyboard in 3D

Patient ManagementMicrosoft Surface

Bedside Machine ManagementMicrosoft Surface

Hospital ManagementMicrosoft Surface

Molecule ViewerMicrosoft Surface

Silverlight… “WPF Light”

• Interactive experiences for devices, PC, & Mac platforms (and others…)• Strict subset of Windows Presentation Foundation• Lightweight download (4.2mbs)• Programming model uses XAML + Jscript + WPF• Access to WPF tooling• Touch Capability in Version 3.0

Lightweight WPF runtime

<XAML> <Button Width="100px"> OK <Button.Background> LightBlue </Button.Background> </Button></XAML>

WPF-based Tools

Eclipsys Maestro: Hospital Management

Eclipsys Maestro: Hospital Management

• Tim Huckaby• Founder / Chairman, InterKnowlogy• Founder / CEO, Actus Software• Microsoft RD & MVP

EMN8 & REZN8

CUSTOMER

• Tim Huckaby• Founder / Chairman, InterKnowlogy• Founder / CEO, Actus Software• Microsoft RD & MVP

demofrom our Marketing VP Madeline Pantalone: “It's okay for you to use application for demonstration as long as you are sure to preface it with the phrase: "This is test data only.  Products you see may have been created for testing purposes only."

NUI: Games as a Tool for Learning

• Learning made Fun / Entertaining• Proven as a learning tool beyond just

Children• Computer based Games are a significant

part of popular culture• Educational Video Game Curriculums

● MIT, UC Irvine, Minnesota, Mich State, etc.

• Tim Huckaby• Founder / Chairman, InterKnowlogy• Founder / CEO, Actus Software• Microsoft RD & MVP

NASA: Mars Bound

DEMO

XBOX Kinect (Natal)

• Motion Based Interface• $149.99• Availability: November 4th • 40 million Xbox 360 owners • RGB camera, three sensors

● (one depth sensor, one motion sensor, and one multi-array microphone) • tracks full-body movement, facial expression, and voice with precision • Navigate the entire Kinect Hub interface on your Xbox 360 without touching a

conventional 360 controller.• While you're watching a movie, you can verbally instruct the Xbox to stop, fast-

forward, rewind, exit out, etc. by calling out easy commands like, "Xbox. Fast-forward." or "Xbox. Pause.“

• Kinect sensor bar scans and monitors 1 million points on the body

• XBOX Kinect (Natal)

Video• Tim Huckaby• Founder / Chairman, InterKnowlogy• Founder / CEO, Actus Software• Microsoft RD & MVP

The Bad News:• Not many applications at launch• Not really any applications at launch; just games• “little kid games”• No exposed API at launch, plus the

legal restrictions of “hacking it”● No building your own apps● No integration with any of the Microsoft Stack● No vertical solutions● ….for the immediate future

XBOX Kinect (Natal)

Neural Interfaces

Conscious and non-conscious Interfaces

• High fidelity EG acquisition device• No conductive gel, etc.• Non-invasive• Use Case Examples:

• Conscious: mind manipulation of objects• Non-Conscious: Ranking music

• First target market: gaming• $300!!!

Video• Tim Huckaby• Founder / Chairman, InterKnowlogy• Founder / CEO, Actus Software• Microsoft RD & MVP

• C++ Header files and Import Libraries

…which means…

• Wrap the SDK in managed C++ thereby exposing a the API to a C# application

• That is very powerful…

Emotiv SDK

• Multi-Touch Capable● Common gestures of touch

• Gesture Capable● Motion Based Interface● Tracking of full-body movement, facial expression, and voice

with precision

• Neural Capable● Conscious and non-conscience interfaces● Non Invasive

NUIThe Natural User Interface

Summary We are at the Cusp of the NUI computing revolution There are still many “standards” yet to be adopted Multi-Touch computing will become a mainstream

aspect of NUI and consequently of software development

Paradigm Shift from GUI to NUI (Natural User Interface)

Touch capable computing changes the way you design systems and differentiates your applications

Shifting from desktop applications to multi-touch based applications will be a cultural change like the mouse was

There are other components of NUI other than just touch…

Neural & Gesture based interfaces

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• About Tim Huckaby…● Founder/Chairman, InterKnowlogy● Founder/CEO, Actus Software● Microsoft® Regional Director – Southern California● Microsoft® .NET Partner Advisory Council Founder /

Member● Microsoft® MVP - .NET ● INETA Speaker – International .NET Users Group

Association● Board Member: Association for Competitive

Technology● Board Member: Dev Connections● Author / Speaker

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