The GUI has served us well for a long time, but it's beginning to fray around the edges. We’re now grappling with an unintended side effect of ubiquitous computing: a surge in complexity that ...

While patrolling the halls of the CHI 2013 Human Factors in Computing conference in Paris, we spied a research project from MIT's Media Lab called "Smarter Objects" that turns Minority Report tech ...

A graphical user interface is familiar to most users of PCs and laptops. GUIs feature a desktop where everything is displayed. Applications run in Windows, and all objects (apps, hardware and ...