Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Living La Vida Virtual: Interfaces of the Near Future (19 Dec 2005) So there is a tension between our desires for usability and mobility: the QWERTY keyboard is an effective and well-practiced input device, but is too large and bulky for use in a truly mobile user experience. Enter the holographic keyboard-virtual save for a small component that is part of a mobile computing device. A holographic projector could place a full-size keyboard anywhere, giving us a computer input experience that is similarly robust to that of our desktop/place-bound computing stations. A holographic keyboard synthesizes the essential usability problem of providing desktop-quality computing with seamless and always-available portability. Now, I’m sure the early versions of such a technology will not deliver on the promise of the idea, but this is the likely technology to take us from the awkward fumbling of today into the powerful mobile computing environment of tomorrow. Add this article to Del.icio.us Article URL: http://uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000045.php Read 25 more articles from User Experience Matters sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Media: Userfocus looks at institutionalising Usability          Books about Usability | Information Architecture | Information Visualisation | Technology History This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy

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