Future User Interfaces and Interaction Solutions Research program (FUIIS) was a four year, multi million Euro research initiative to investigate the possibilities in the User Interface domain. The program looks at technologies ranging from SW interfaces to Audio and Haptics experience as well as the HW and mechanics implementation of these interfaces. FUIIS started in 2004 and ended by the end of 2007. The program consisted of about 20 projects each ranging about 2-3 years in lenght.
Some program Highlights, include; Shoot-to Translate, an application that enables westerners to read chinese, by photographing the text and using the phone to scan and translate the sighns. Hitchcock UI accelerattion toolkit, and Haptikos a prototype device that creates a touch sensation when pressing keys on a touch screen.
Some recent Press Coverage:
“Magic Touch”
http://www.theengineer.co.uk/Articles/307304/Magic+touch.htm
“Nokia perfects the clicky tactile touchscreen - iPhone gnashes teeth, swears revenge”
Red Ferret
http://www.redferret.net/?p=9533
“How Haptics Will Change the Way We Interact With Machines”
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4253368.html?page=2
“Touch me, feel me”
The Guardianhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/14/haptic
“Nokia Introduces Haptikos Touch Feedback Technology”
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/11/07/nokia-introduces-haptikos-touch-feedback-technology/
“Pinch and Spread: The
http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/17-04/st_essay
” Nokia's Haptikos Technology Makes Physical Keyboards Obsolete, Hopefully”
Gizmodo
”Nokialta Rautaa Sovelluskehittäjille”
”Bra Vibrationer”
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/tag/Haptikos/
