A demo of rapMenu, a gestural interface for selection of expanding menu items.
Since the items are consistently grouped, this model holds an exciting potential for mastery. A user can gain familiarity with the controls and communicate with the machine without looking at it, which is important in environments that require selecting menu items from some distance. From the back of an auditorium or from the backseat, a screen can be obscured or difficult to discern.
It would be nice to see gestural interfaces like these work without the use of the pinch glove, perhaps through UV sensing or high-precision blob detection.
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