User Interface Year 2020
The user interface as you know it is over. In the year 2020, GNOME and KDE will be at end-of-life and seem as obsolete as MS-DOS is today. What will our future UI be? Hollywood is showing the future of human-computer interaction in films like Iron Man and Quantum of Solace. And, it’s not all fantasy. Research labs have been busy for a decade building new ways to interact with computers: Gesture, Speech, Conversational AI, Image AI, HUD, 3D and new io devices. However, the commercial software industry is a decade behind the labs.
How can FOSS leap ahead? How do we start building the user interface for the year 2020 now?
Robin Rowe
Linux Plus Magazine
Robin Rowe is a software designer and corporate trainer. He’s completed R&D projects for DreamWorks Animation, DARPA, the Pentagon, the navy, and many companies. He’s a contributing editor for Linux Journal. He leads the open source CinePaint project. He’s taught object-oriented software design at the Naval Postgraduate School and at the University of Washington.
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I was very disapointed in this session. I was really looking to what the presenter thought the interfaces would look like. All he did was kind of whine about it and that everyone should get involved. Next time have a future of 2020 in mind
It would have been better if the speaker had shown more of the technology than just talking about it.