user interaction

Many types of touch and multi-touch surfaces are taking over our daily lives, but the reactable is arguably one of the coolest. If you're not familiar with the reactable, you should absolutely drop everything and head on over to http://www.reactable.com. The framework that powers the reactable is open-source and available at http://reactivision.sourceforge.net/

We have been working toward the goal of building a functioning reactable ourselves, and we finally have a product that is starting to approximate the real deal. We'd like to share what we've learned so that others might be able to jumpstart development or jump in on our project. Our reactable-like device will be present and (hopefully) functioning if anyone wants to check it out.

So one day shortly after I had acquired my Droid, I was crabbing to a friend about the lack of ability to zoom the camera. The teen in the room looked up from his Droid and said, "Yes you can. Here..."

How nice to be of a generation where one can spend a half day poking around with a new gizmo,not having to worry about billable hours or cleaning the house or trekking to another soccer game.

And I couldn't find the user manual for the device in the box, either. Oh, right. Scratch that last comment.

Anyways... sometimes looking over somebody else's shoulder is the best way to pick up new tips and tricks. In this roundtable session, we'll discuss what we want out of our Android devices, and then share philosophies as well as specific techniques used to accomplish those goals.

So... I'll show you mine if you show me yours.