Information Visualization: text-free user interfaces

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March 25, 2010

text-free user interfaces - Medhi interface

Indrani Medhi brings the power of computing to illiterate, first-time users in India.

“It really came as a very pleasant surprise,” says Medhi, an associate researcher in the Technology for Emerging Markets group at Microsoft Research India whose work in text-free user interfaces is being featured by MoMA. “From the beginning, we did not think of this as an art project. We just thought of it as solving a particular problem.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: nice work; 9:13 AM
Anonymous said...: nice techology; 9:13 AM
Research Paper said...: Many institutions limit access to their online information. Making this information available will be an asset to all.; 1:29 AM
kinds of cats said...: its really good work i really like this great work from ur side,,,well i think its the brilliant idea tht u want to make it available for all..; 1:53 AM