Monday, January 22, 2007

Press: UD researchers seen as innovators of iPhone

"The wonder lies in an entirely new way of controlling computers, cell phones and other electronic devices, saving time and smoothing their functionality.

Instead of a typical cell phone's buttons, the iPhone has just a screen, and is operated by specific finger motions -- a capability similar to the products made by the firm that Elias and Westerman founded in conjunction with UD [the University of Delaware], called FingerWorks. Under Westerman and Elias' guidance, FingerWorks built a range of these multi-touch devices, including a no-touch keyboard, mouse-less mousepads and other gadgets that allowed users to initiate computer commands with finger gestures, or just by getting their fingers close to the keys."

(We are finally starting to get close to the gesture-based interface I imagined and described in one of my last columns as editor in chief of ComputerUser exactly 10 years ago.)

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