NUIs in your living room, in a pub
Posted: May 9th, 2010 | Author: Mark Connolly | Filed under: Events | Tags: NUI, pub | 1 Comment »Well, our plans for May have changed due to scheduling challenges. For this month’s event on Monday May 17 we’ll be enjoying an evening of fine conversation in the informal atmosphere of a pub. While everyone is, of course, free to follow whatever path the conversation goes in, we’ll at least set out to answer this question:
What are the UX implications of NUIs in the living room?
We fully acknowledge that the question is inspired by the impending arrival of the Apple iPad in Canada this month, with its gestural interface and lightweight form. There are other devices, though, that are here already (Nintendo Wii, anybody?), and there are certainly more on the horizon.
Finally, we may well have an iPad for those of you who would like to see and feel one up close. If anyone has any devices that they’d like to share, please do bring them along! Otherwise, bring your ideas and contribute generously to what we hope will be friendly and illuminating discussion.
May meeting (Updated with new date and location)
Monday, May 17, 2010
5:30 to 7:00 pm
Back room at Barley Works, Huether Hotel, 59 King Street North, Waterloo, ON N2J 2X2
Please register here.
Here’s a post to get your creative juices flowing about NUIs (natural user interfaces) before tonight’s event! It explains some of the challenges that NUIs cause for development and prototyping: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/05/17/resurrecting-user-interface-prototypes-without-creating-zombies/