Microsoft Research Presents Multitouch Mice at UIST

by Thorsten Finck on: 10/07/2009 04:51 AM | source: | 0 comment(s)

This year's UIST (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology), currently taking place in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada from October 4th until October 7th, "brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse areas that include traditional graphical & web user interfaces, tangible & ubiquitous computing, virtual & augmented reality, multimedia, new input & output devices, and CSCW."

One of it's main sponsors, Microsoft Research, got some attention yesterday for their presentation of working prototypes of a new family of multitouch mice. The five prototypes include:

FTIR (Frustrated Total Internal Reflection) Mouse
Side Mouse
Orb Mouse
Arty Mouse
Cap Mouse

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