*Nice day for essays on interface design.
*Suppose you could fly be stepping into a powered aircraft and vaguely waving your hands... like, pointing at Oslo or Johannesburg. Would that be an improvement in the world? Would you let a four-year-old fly a jet?
http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2012/04/interfaces-for-the-unlimited-dream-of-flying.html
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“Fly with the confidence of knowing where the sky always begins.”
"So says the marketing material for Garmin Cirrus Perspective multi-function display. It’s a rather poetic turn of phrase for what are essentially a couple of displays mounted in a cockpit. But this is the paradox of interfaces for flying, or ‘avionics’—what happens when something as ethereal and other-worldly as the act of flying becomes experienced through hardware and software environments more commonly found in the grey cubicles of a Cisco branch office?
"In fact, whilst they are rarely multi-touch interfaces (yet), contemporary avionics systems, such as L-3’s SmartDeck or the Cirrus Perspective (below) suggest a convergence not simply with personal computers, but with the latest multi-touch devices such as the iPad, iPhone, Android and so on...."
