Talks Jeff Han

Talks Jeff Han: Unveiling the genius of multi-touch interface design
I watched this video on Jeff Han, the creator of a multi-touch computer screen that has the potential to take over the computer mouse. Han made the multi-touch computer screen with high resolution at a low cost and most importantly, very scaleable. The most interesting aspect of it is what you can do with it. There is no manual necessary; it’s all interaction within the screen and makes things do exactly what you expect. In the demonstration, Han starts off with showing the audience a lava lamp, then goes through a process of photo-editing. The open source version of Google Earth was my favorite feature. Han started off with the earth and zoomed in from different views and showed how the multi-touch screen could see through 3d very quickly. NASA uses the open source version of Google Earth and I think that’s really interesting and reliable. “This is the way we should be interacting with machines from this point on” said Han.