Interaction Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Spicebox's Mauz aims to make your iPhone an all-in-one controller

by Mike Schramm (Jan 31st, 2013)

One of the weirdest devices I've seen so far here at Macworld is Spicebox's Mauz controller. The company recently started a Kickstarter for the project (their second, after a case that tracks your opening of multiple beers called the Intoxicase), but even though that campaign hasn't yet come ...

Wizkids and Marvel's HeroClix TabApp spoils its chance to innovate

by Mike Schramm (Oct 12th, 2012)

A few weeks ago, I posted about the HeroClix TabApp that was recently released on the App Store, an iPad app that has the ability to interact with a special set of figurines designed to be used with Marvel's very popular HeroClix collectible game. Wizkids kindly got in touch with me after that ...

Apple pulls Bitdefender's privacy app Clueful

by Mike Schramm (Jul 20th, 2012)

Apple has pulled an app named Clueful from the App Store, though it hasn't been completely forthcoming yet as to why the app was pulled. Clueful is an app from a company called Bitdefender that's designed to let iPhone users monitor what their other apps are doing or sharing in terms of usage. ...

University of Calgary experimenting with one-handed iPhone gestures

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 5th, 2012)

A research team from the GroupLab at the University of Calgary is working on a set of new single-handed gestures for the iPhone called the the Fat Thumb interaction technique. This technique lets you hold your iPhone with one hand and use your thumb to interact with the UI. The team conducted ...

Daily iPad App: Phrase Game is a party game in an app

by Mike Schramm (Mar 23rd, 2012)

The intersection of physical games and Apple's iOS platform is interesting -- the iPad and the iPhone are very good for abstracted interfaces, just because you're touching them directly rather than using a mouse or a keyboard, so it makes sense that they'd be ideal for interacting in a ...

Rumor: Google working on Siri competitor codenamed "Majel"

by Mike Schramm (Dec 14th, 2011)

Android and Me has reportedly come across some secret details regarding "Majel," which is Google's voice control project that sounds very similar to the popular Siri. Before you start crying foul that Google is jumping on the voice control bandwagon, don't forget that Google actually included ...

25 iPads used to make one big interactive touch display

by Mike Schramm (Nov 19th, 2010)

This is awesome -- a group of musical composers and artists connected up 25 iPads in an installation commissioned by the Environmental Ministry of Japan to create a huge display 25 touchscreens big. Not only do the iPads stream one big image, but they're also interactive -- you can speed the image ...

TUAW's Daily App: Monster Feed

by Mike Schramm (Oct 26th, 2010)

Monster Feed is a colorful little tower defense title for the iPad, and it's a little more action-based than most TD titles. A lot of your interaction with the oncoming hordes is actually interactive, as you have not only towers to build and grow but also spells and even summonable minions fighting ...

TUAW First Look: Digg's iPhone app

by Mike Schramm (Mar 25th, 2010)

Digg released its official iPhone app this morning, and after playing with it for a little while, I can tell you that it does what it says on the box: it will let you browse, interact, and comment on the popular news aggregator without many problems (there was one major issue -- I'll mention it in ...

iPad devsugar: Three lessons from the iPhone

by Erica Sadun (Feb 3rd, 2010)

In pixel-terms, the iPad offers a much larger workspace to develop on than the iPhone but in terms of the human experience, it's not that very far away from iPhone programming. The two share an underlying operating system and a large overlap in human interaction realities. Here are just three of ...

iPod photo Connector Lets iPod 'Get It On' with Different Devices

by C.K. Sample, III (Jun 8th, 2005)

Phillip Torrone well-known pervert hacker from MAKE:BLOG is obsessed with "connecting" his iPod photo with other devices via the iPod photo connector, and he took lots of photos of the pornography interaction of the devices and posted them here [WARNING: May not be safe for work], along ...