My friend Nate wrote me the other day about the SIGGRAPH 06 conference:

A friend of mine from CMU's Human-Computer Interaction program went to SIGGRAPH last week.

If you aren't aware, SIGGRAPH is supposedly THE conference for people who design human-computer interfaces. She took some videos of really cool toys, I thought I'd share a few of them with you.

All of the videos are now located at:
http://www.aubreyshick.com/SIGGRAPH06/

Definately check out the command interface, it's amazing.

I'm not positive, but it looks like the command interface might be the latest incarnation of the Multi-Touch system that I've been drooling over for a while.  The OS in this new video has a minority report look to it and allows users to drag, rotate, and scale windows with natural hand movements.

The MIT huggable also caught my eye.  The huggable is cute bear equipped with various skin sensors, cameras, microphones and an embedded wireless PC which allows it to interact with its owner on a pseudo-emotional level.  It's an interactive stuffed animal, and it's way less creepy than robogrover.

The page has links to 7 AVIs in total.  If you have any trouble playing them, try to right-click and download them first rather than attempting to play in-browser.

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