The Future of Software Now: NUI-A New Genre of UX-Using Microsoft's Kinect
The Future of Software Now: NUI-A New Genre of UX
See examples from healthcare, finance, retail, and hospitality!
For more than 30 years developers have been building enterprise software for small computers like the PC. Arguments are frequently made that the tools, plumbing and platforms makes building software easier than we ever dreamed. And many of today’s software architects will argue the exact opposite: that building software is more difficult than ever because of the complexities of integration and the myriad of choices in solution architecture.
In addition to the solution architecture challenges “under the hood”, we are in the midst of a reinvigorated focus on user experience to tackle the challenges “above the hood.” Rich client and rich internet application (RIA) developer technologies have created even greater opportunities for the creation of awesome user experiences in applications. When you couple that with the advent of multi touch capable hardware at consumer prices and the high level APIs in frameworks to leverage multi-touch capabilities, we have the start of the new age of software focused on the Natural User Experience (NUI).
NUI applications manifest in “new” platforms such as Windows, Surface, IOS, Mobile, and Kinect. And they manifest in developer technologies like WPF, Silverlight & WinRT and all can leverage innovative capabilities like Multi-touch, Cloud and parallel computing.
Multi-touch capable computing devices are becoming pervasive. The industry predicts all new computers on all major platforms will have multi-touch capability in the short term whether you like it or not / whether you use it or not. Multi-touch capability is now at consumer price point where it is insignificant to the cost of the computing device.
But, NUI is more than just multi-touch. NUI is also gesture-based interfaces using the Kinect tracking full body movement, facial expressions, and voice recognition with precision. And within the decade NUI will be Neural based interfaces (both conscience and non-conscience).
This demo focused keynote will take an amusing look at the past and take an impressive look at some of the best software being built today and into the immediate future.
Speaker Details:
Tim Huckaby is focused on the Natural User Interface (NUI)- Touch, Gesture, and Neural, in Rich Client Technologies on a broad spectrum of devices.
Tim has been called a “Pioneer of the Smart Client Revolution” by the press. Tim has been awarded many times for the highest rated technical presentations and keynotes for Microsoft and many other technology conferences around the world. Tim has been on stage with, and done numerous keynote demos for many Microsoft executives including Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.
Tim founded InterKnowlogy, a custom application development company, in 1999 and Actus Interactive Software in 2011 and has over 30 years of experience including serving on a Microsoft product team as a development lead on an architecture team on a Server Product. Tim is a Microsoft Regional Director, a Microsoft MVP and serves on many Microsoft councils and boards like the Microsoft .NET Partner Advisory Council.
Date: | Nov 18 2011 7:30am - 9:30am |
Location Name: | TechColumbus |
Location URL: | |
Address: | 1275 Kinnear Rd |
City: | Columbus |
State: | Ohio |
Zip: | 43212 |
Phone: | 614-340-1864 |
Event Sponsor: | |
Member Fee: | $0.00 |
Non-Member Fee: | $15.00 |
Deadline Date: | 11/17/2011 |
Links: | |
Contact Info: |
You must log in
or become a site user
to receive TechColumbus
news and register for events.
Registration is quick and free.
Log In to your
account now or
Register to
become a site user.
Find another Event