Smart Televisions UI

It is very interesting to me to see how much televisions have evolved. They have gone from tube televisions, to Plasma, then LCD and LED's with 3D, and now smart TV's. Smart TV's enable you to experience the world in a different way by allowing you to watch television an access the internet at the same time.

     The remote controls are used to navigate through the apps and features embedded with the Smart TV just like you would with an Xbox or Playstation 3. As you can see from the picture above, the user can still watch the television program and access the apps and internet. This UI gives the user a reliable and effective experience.

One last observation made on this Samsung Smart TV is that this TV was designed to allow the user to access the basic features such as on, off, volume up and down by only placing your hand behind the TV. When the user places his or her hand behind the TV the symbols you see above are instantly shown. Touch sensors on the back buttons enable the highlighting of the symbols on the screen. A very clever idea for a better human computer interaction experience.

Hi all, I am starting this blog to keep track of all User interfaces that I may run across in public places such as restaurants, stores, movie theaters etc. It is interesting to see how different industries use different interfaces. For example at the restaurant all POS systems have user interfaces which how a layout of the restaurants floor and tables and at the same time it will have a normal UI for running transactions. The colors and layouts used in these systems seem to vary by industry. A restaurant will have a layout of the tables in the restaurant to keep track of reservations, while a critical system in a hospital will have numbers and graphs showing results of a patient. As most of our lives today are all involved with some technology, it will be a constant opportunity of observing the different user interfaces that people interact with on a daily basis.