User interfaces for mobile devices move away from mainly buttonand menu-based interaction styles and towards more direct techniques, involving rich sensory input and output. The recently proposed concept of Natural User Interfaces (NUIs) provides a way to structure the discussion about these developments. We examine how two-sided and around-device interaction, gestural input, and shapeand weigh...

It is time to go beyond the established approaches in user-system interaction (USI). After a serious critic of well established interaction styles we discuss the two known approaches to overcome the obstacles and limitations: (1) [immersive] Virtual Reality (VR), and (2) Augmented Reality (AR). Both design strategies are diametrically opposed: VR enriches the virtual world with real humans, whi...

Based on the fundamental constraints of natural way of interacting such as speech, touch, contextual and environmental awareness, immersive 3D experiences-all with a goal of a computer that can see listen, learn talk and act. We drive a set of trends prevailing for the next generation of user interface: Natural User Interface (NUI).New technologies are pushing the boundaries of what is possible...

In this paper, we describe a novel concept for motivating users to explore applications using natural user interfaces in the automotive domain. Based on prior findings, it can be very hard for users to detect opportunities of action in such systems. Additionally, traditional “did you know?” hints seem to be ignored by many users today. As a countermeasure, we describe an approach that shall mot...

User interfaces are always one of the most important applied and study fields of information technology. The development and expansion of cognitive science studies and functionalization of its tools such as BCI1, as well as popularization of methods such as SSVEP2 to stimulate brain waves, have led to using these techniques every day, especially in appropriate solutions for physically and menta...

In a museum context, people have specific needs in terms of physical, cognitive, and social accessibility that cannot be ignored. Therefore, we need to find way make art culture accessible them through the aid Universal Design principles, advanced technologies, suitable interfaces contents. Integration such factors is priority Museums General Direction Italian Ministry Cultural Heritage, within...

Abstract Creating novel user interfaces that are “natural” and distributed is challenging for designers and developers. “Natural” interaction techniques are barely standardized and in combination with distributed UIs additional technical diffi culties arise. In this paper we present the lessons we have learned in developing several natural and distributed user interfaces and propose design patt...

Each command or transaction in a modern graphical user interface exists as a nearly independent utterance, unconnected to previous and future ones from the same user. This is unlike real human communication, where each utterance draws on previous ones for its meaning. While some natural language human-computer interfaces attempt to include such characteristics of human dialogue, they have been ...