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posted by Editor
on Tuesday April 10, @06:50PM
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This article in MIT Technology Review highlights Bumptop, a 3D desktop that adds more realism to traditional GUIs by using a physics engine to simulate the behavior of desktop objects as they are dragged and tossed with the feel of characteristics such as friction, mass, collisions, and displacement (see this YouTube video for a demonstration). The idea is to allow users to employ the same strategies they use in the real world to organize their virtual desktops, making the interactive experience feel more continuous and analog (see this research paper describing the concept). The article points out that despite Bumptop's appeal, getting mass acceptance for a new user interface paradigm faces enormous hurdles, drawing comparisons with LifeStreams, another promising UI with a more intuitive metaphor that ultimately failed to gain traction in the market.
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