Editors may one day cut programmes the way Tom Cruise controlled his anti-crime application in the film Minority Report if research at the University of Salford comes to fruition. The university is using tracking technology from Vicon to 'demonstrate and evaluate real-world ways for people to interact with computers and other displays via natural, gesture-based commands'. The research, being done at the Future Workspaces Research Centre, is studying an array of scenarios from future design workspaces to 'immersive tele-environments' that eschew a computer mouse and keyboard in favour of a person's body as the main control interface.
Editors may one day cut programmes the way Tom Cruise controlled his anti-crime application in the film Minority Report if research at the University of Salford comes to fruition. The university is using tracking technology from Vicon to 'demonstrate and evaluate real-world ways for people to interact with computers and other displays via natural, gesture-based commands'. The research, being done at the Future Workspaces Research Centre, is studying an array of scenarios from future design workspaces to 'immersive tele-environments' that eschew a computer mouse and keyboard in favour of a person's body as the main control interface.

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