We are unsure of our future and the path we will find—it may revolve around building hardware and different devices, it may be primarily based in developing interface software and applications—we don’t know yet where our interests will lead us. Though, it is clear to us and many others that this is the future, that computers will relatively soon lose the cumbersome and disjointed interface of manipulating one pointer on an X-Y axis. The future of computer interaction will be multi-touch, sensitive to pressures and flow, multi-user, and much more intuitive—hence, a Natural User Interface.

There is a fun and informative online community that is constantly growing as more interest picks up in multi-touch research. To see some of the great sites and technologies we’ve come across, visit our Resources page.