This is one of the trends I missed in the last post about mobile phones. Natural human interface refers to the user interface of a information technology device – laptop, phone etc – that interacts with the end user in natural, easy, and by instinct fashion.
A few successful examples:
- iphone: touch screen gesture to launch applications, scroll up and down, and enlarge pictures
- macbook pro: web browsing experience – two fingers to scroll up and down, three fingers to back and forward web pages
- macbook pro – Snow leopard: the Chinese touch pad input method.
There should have been lots of introductions about the first two. let me provide some intro about the 3rd one:
It is as same as other Chinese input methods that the end user needs a special combination of keys to turn the input method on. The fancy part is how he or she can use the touch pad built in the macbook to input Chinese characters. As you can see below, A visualized window will be shown. The chinese character will be displayed as the end user writes it down on the touch pad. selection, space and backspace keys are built into the visualized window. He or she can just touch the positions on the touch pad directly to perform these actions. I do not need to learn any thing to finish typing a Chinese word. Very, very nature. This will be a very, very helpful feature to people like my parents who cannot use Pinyin.
