The living room has an interesting topology for multimodal interaction. Years ago, you got up and turned the dial directly on the TV. The advent of the remote control allowed you to do that from your seat. Even up to the early-mid 2000s, it was just the remote and TV in the living room – …
Looking around the living room, I can’t help but notice that the TV remote is a bit awkward: they all have different appearances and pretty much never fit in with the room’s decor. Of course, there have been attempts to create interfaces that use speech or gestures in the air, but there is just something …
Logitech surveyed people to find out where they found their lost remote controls: Wow, somebody has the munchies!
