Rich Miner Android co-founder Man / Machine Interface Digital Ink / Stylus and other Modalities
Rich Miner Co-Founder Android @richminer
35,000 years of innovative & creative output supported by “ink”
33,000 BC 1215 1488 1890 1951 2014
The interface to our best 2017 tech is an 1873 innovation
1873 1961 1981 2010
QWERTY Keyboard used at scale for only the past +/- 30 years
1873 1961 1981 2010
QWERTY With a fresh start you would not choose QWERTY on glass
1873 2016
WAIT!!!!! In 2017 Ink is still heavily used to get work done
2016 Apple has Pencil Microsoft has Surface
Google has Pixelbook and Android w/Ink
Confluence of Technologies Confluence of multiple technology’s
enabling something new and amazing from the alignment of different technology roadmaps Confluence of multiple technology’s CPU Confluencememory of multiple technology’s UX battery tech
network bandwidth display resolution real OS & development tools Voice Based Assistants Confluence of multiple technology’s Confluence of multiple technology’s SpeechConfluence accuracy of multiple technology’s AI/ML
Network performance
CPU/signal processing
Ink latency Pen precision
API’s
App’s Device proliferation
HWR accuracy Shape of the future Shape of the future - Dependence on Keyboard & Mouse will Decline Shape of the future - Dependence on Keyboard & Mouse will Decline Shape of the future - Dependence on Keyboard & Mouse will Decline If you do your jobs well this the future of work...
The world can be your canvas
What can we do?
Kindergarten
Letter/number/shape recognition Basic Storytelling with pictures & words Phonics Sight words
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3rd Grade
Spelling, vocab, sentence structure Addition and subtraction within 100 Multiplication and division within 100
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5th Grade
Clear, coherent writing with logically ordered reasoning Evaluate evidence from literary or informational text Fractions, decimals Shape volume Measure and interpret data Graphing
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We got very attached to the QWERTY keyboard But remember why we started using it as an interface to computer systems..
ASCII
An abstraction from 1 & 0’s paved the way for higher level programming languages
Like FORTRAN FORTRAN
Formula Translation
501 FORMAT(3I5) 601 FORMAT(4H A= ,I5,5H B= ,I5,5H C= ,I5,8H AREA= ,F10.2, $13H SQUARE UNITS) 602 FORMAT(10HNORMAL END) 603 FORMAT(23HINPUT ERROR, ZERO VALUE) INTEGER A,B,C 10 READ(5,501) A,B,C IF(A.EQ.0 .AND. B.EQ.0 .AND. C.EQ.0) GO TO 50 IF(A.EQ.0 .OR. B.EQ.0 .OR. C.EQ.0) GO TO 90 S = (A + B + C) / 2.0 AREA = SQRT( S * (S - A) * (S - B) * (S - C) ) WRITE(6,601) A,B,C,AREA GO TO 10 50 WRITE(6,602) STOP We can compile formula’s
Directly, and in real time!
Why can’t I compile this? Confluence ofMan multiple / Machine technology’s UX
But these devices can….
Understand our…
.. words
.. writing
.. facial expressions
.. gestures Assistive Ink This is how we communicate facial expression Future of man / machine interaction assistive UX gesture digital ink communicating naturally as we have for voice 10’s of thousands of years recognition