Conclusions

This project was an exploration of the potential for computer technology. By breaking away from the traditional user interface paradigm we feel that there may be great benefit in alternative interfaces, and using computers could become a simple pleasure rather than a frustrating tool. By looking at the way people communicate with each other and manipulate their environment we can adapt computer tools to better enable us to use technology.

Our project sought to build an experimental prototype physical motion interface. We created a basic application which can easily be extended further by us, or by others. We have demonstrated that basic interfaces can be achieved using simple and affordable technology and that interfaces of the future could be fundamentally different than current technologies. The project was not meant as an alternative to the mouse and keyboard, but rather as a challenge to the implicit ways we use technology, and a proposition of one alternative system.