October 29, 2009 11:16 AM
With all the multitouch buzz these days, I've often wondered when we're going to have a fully multitouch enabled operating system. Both Windows 7 and OSX now support a high level of multitouch functionality, but those features are still secondary to the traditional keyboard and mouse. How will these systems adapt to a more natural and "human" method of interaction? R. Clayton Miller is thinking along these lines as well and has produced the following demonstration about this very subject:
10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo.
This is certainly the correct frame of mind for this exercise. I'm not sold on the horizontal scrolling, although I would be more pleased if the application and operating system controls were instead on the top and bottom rather than on either edge. This stays closer to current interaction systems and might be more welcoming to users. However, I absolutely love the gestures for manipulating different levels of the system (2 fingers for scrolling windows, 3 for scrolling apps, etc.) and the idea of more stringent window management. Anyone else ready to ditch their mouse?
The 10/GUI site can be found at 10gui.com and has the video as well as some background about the project itself.
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