Firefox, Mozilla, & Open Source: Software Design at Scale

(April 3, 2009) John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, and Mike Beltzner, Director of Firefox, share their backgrounds and perspectives on how the Mozilla project produces Firefox and other products: what works, what could be better, and what issues they’ve found themselves thinking about most recently.
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UIST’09: Bonfire: a nomadic system for hybrid laptop-tabletop interaction

Presented at UIST (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology) http://www.acm.org/uist/
PAPER ABSTRACT
We present Bonfire, a self-contained mobile computing system that uses two laptop-mounted laser micro-projectors to project an interactive display space to either side of a laptop keyboard. Coupled with each micro-projector is a camera to enable hand gesture tracking, object recognition, and information [...]

Natural User Interface Multitouch Software

www.natural-ui.com, ,Natural User Interface (NUI) is a Swedish innovative emerging technology company specializing in delivering commercially available advanced multi-touch software, hardware and service solutions, to the global market.
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Social Enterprise Software Design

(April 10, 2009) The emergence of ubiquitous, persistent online identity, social graph, and feeds are fundamentally transforming individuals’ behavior, expectations and experience across the Web. Clara Shih, creator of the first business application on Facebook, talks about her application and what the World Wide Web of people means for interaction, relationships and enterprise software design. [...]

UIST’09: Mouse 2.0: Multi-touch Meets the Mouse

Presented at UIST (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology) http://www.acm.org/uist/
PAPER ABSTRACT:
In this paper we present novel input devices that combine the standard capabilities of a computer mouse with multitouch sensing. Our goal is to enrich traditional pointerbased desktop interactions with touch and gestures. To chart the design space, we present five different multitouch [...]