Saturday, November 29, 2008  Anand Argwala's Bumptop on a
Multitouch Wall  After a night of late night scrounging, I found
Anand demoing his very intriguing UI.  The video suggests
several design concepts that would work very well in a table
top, multiuser scenario...  1. 1-point perspective. This helps
keep the illusion of depth when viewed from all sides.  2. Using
a "room" to simulate depth.  3. Pinning content to a side wall
and then scaling it on the z axis to make space on the table. An
expanding tray/wall that rotates out to become become a
temporary "roof" instead of moving the floor might look less
cool. It would also be less disturbing to other users.  The
Bumptop website claims that their video on tablet computing is
the most watched video on youtube, ever. Not sure about that,
but here it is...quite cool.  1. Many of the group
selection/sorting metaphors seem highly relevant to nultitouch.
2. The cornucopia of display options seem like they could be
modified for multitouch. In reality, you only w