Microsoft Research has just uploaded a video of a prototype digital drafting table that supports both pen and touch input named Manual Deskterity. This prototype is aimed at exploring the what they call a division of labor between pen and touch inherent from natural human skills:
We advocate a division of labor between pen and touch: the pen writes, touch manipulates, and the combination of pen+touch yields new tools. This articulates how our system interprets unimodal pen, unimodal touch, and multimodal pen + touch inputs, respectively. We contribute novel pen + touch gestures that leverage the strengths of both pen and touch; utilizing both modalities to complement one another also enables us to largely sidestep the weaknesses inherent in each modality as well.
I Guess that Steve Jobs would say that Microsoft “Blew it” once again right? Interestigly this project is in some wyas similar to what we have seen the Courier renderings and videos. Oh and those working on it are the same who worked onproject Codex (ealry Courier protoype?).
Source: YouTube via IStartedsomething
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