Cyrano de Begerac could have been inspired to scribe romantic volumes using his prominent nose with this innovation. The Nouse is a perceptual user interface that is controlled via the user's nose and ...

If you can visualize controlling your computer merely by using your voice or a wave of your hand, rather than a mouse, a keyboard, or even a touchscreen, then you can see just the beginnings of what ...

Keyboards and mice are great when you're typing a report or entering data in a spreadsheet, but next-generation applications are much more likely to be controlled by voice or gesture input. We've ...

I recently reviewed Intel’s prototype “perceptual computing” interface, and while the product vision was compelling, the user experience needed a lot of work. Just because you can plop a depth camera ...

"Until now, if you were to hang an advertising poster in the pedestrian zone, and wanted to know how many people actually looked at it, you would not have had a chance", explains Andreas Bulling, who ...

Intel likes to invest in emerging categories of computing that can consume a lot of its processors. The company's latest target is what it calls "perceptual computing," which focuses on ...

Our Human Machine Interface (HMI) is broken. Designed in 1973 at Xerox PARC, the technology waits for a demand from the human before responding, and then guides them to push the buttons in the right ...