On 5/30/07, Karen Coyle <kcoyle_at_kcoyle.net> wrote:
> The video is very neat. About 10 years ago I went to a program at the
> Exploratorium in San Francisco on "the history of the future" where they
> showed some similar videos that had been done by tech companies some
> years prior. One of them showed a kind of touch screen like this one.
> One of the creators of the video who spoke afterward said that it had
> turned out to be an ergonomic nightmare, and that the actress who was
> manipulating the screen ended up with really bad arm and shoulder pain.
> I think the same think when I look at this video. These big arm
> movements may be great drama but ...
>
> kc
>
> Bernd T. Wunsch wrote:
> > Hi, Microsoft just launched it's new "Surface" Technology. It's basically
> Jeff Han's Multi-Touch research put into Action.
> >
> > This platform has the nice capability of "scanning" the items you put onto
> the surface, and creating interactions with them, by beeing a super
> high-tech touchscreen as well. This of course means that in a few years
> time, we better have these things all over our libraries, so people can
> interact with our book catalogs just by putting a book they like (or don't
> like) on to a surface, and then browse on from there. (Like the Microsoft
> video's do with phones).
> >
> > As Karen Coyle put's it: "librarians today are not using the best tool for
> the job." I would like to add that we need to get technology (new tools)
> INTO our library, and not just focus on how we get all of our library
> Material crammed into computers. When we guide people to finding books, we
> simply point to a computer in the library, and tell them to use the SAME
> tool as they could have done from home. This definitely doesn't add to the
> Library Coolness Factor. Next time our patrons visit our library, we should
> better have some kind of "wow-factor" which they couldn't get at home.
> >
> >
> > Jeff Han's original: (youtube video's are out there too).
> > http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/
> >
> > The new Microsoft Thing (with flash9 video goodness)
> > http://www.microsoft.com/surface/
> >
> > - Bernd.
> >
> >
>
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Received on Wed May 30 2007 - 08:41:02 EDT