Hardware like the MacBookPro and iPhone have begun to mainstream gesture interfaces.
I was kind of thinking about this at a recent visit to my regular bus stop. More specifically, while waiting for the bus to show up, I killed a little time by checking out the readerboard that displays all the different routes and corresponding arrival and departure times. As I looked at this, I started to think about how someone new to the bus system would decipher it. While the layout was pretty intuitive and logical, the font on the timetables and maps was very small; perhaps so small that a new, prospective rider would simply give up trying to figure out the best route to their destination. Wouldn’t it be nice if they could design these readerboards with gesture interfaces so people could zoom in on those parts of the map or timetables where they wanted more details? The bus system folks could look to CNN as their model.
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