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Edited by Christian Lowe | Contact

Death to PowerPoint

Here’s some Sunday viewing for you…

Imagine you’re at another Pentagon briefing and the program manager throws up one of those “death-by-PowerPoint” presentations - an “eye chart” that taxes your patience and makes your lids droop.

Now imagine if the presenter used this technology to spice up the briefing…


A lot more exciting, huh?

Let’s hope this vectors into the mainstream more quickly than your average Pentagon program. Maybe since it’s coming from private industry, it will.

Read the San Francisco Chronicle entry here .

(Gouge:CM ).

(Check out DT's earlier coverage on this tech here.)

-- Christian

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Jeff Han has been demonstrating this technology for some time now. I have seen earlier versions of this movie, where Han was using the screen to work in Apple's Aperture program.

I am not convinced it is good for presentations because the speaker has no eye contact and the manipulator is distracting. It could be used to develop a movie for presentations, though, and it could be good if care is taken to make sure it is not overdone.

The interface is probably much more valuable to digital artists and designers, and it probably has a future in computer games.

Posted by: Christopher Campbell at March 17, 2007 12:38 PM


This is great emerging technology....in terms of presentations, let's not forget the all-important "eye contact" factor necessary to convey the message. I see even greater applicability in operating interfaces for control process management....

Posted by: rickgainey at March 15, 2007 07:01 AM


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imagine how virtual surgery could be improved, cad, painting, virtual reality (games) interaction etc..

Posted by: radu at March 13, 2007 03:23 PM


It might be useful to attend an Edward Tufte' Presenting Data and Information course and consider the cognitive style of PowerPoint. I may not agree with everything he has to say but I've seen enough PowerPoint and now Keynote to know that there is a problem. Some of the discussion threads on Dr. Tufte's site are also illuminating.

Posted by: Phred at March 13, 2007 12:41 PM


this a great begining ...I can see some people don't undersatnd the potential of this technology ..this will be great for airport the army any govermental offices that has to manage alot of information ...the regular joe maybe only be able to use 1/5 of the technology for a practical usage...but this is really a great begining ....

Posted by: great at March 12, 2007 07:33 PM


wouldnt this be better for data analysis?

Posted by: Matt at March 12, 2007 04:21 PM


Why are we still calling this a "Man" machine interface? What century is this? It's "Human" machine interface! And stay tuned for biological-machine interfaces.

Posted by: Zorak at March 12, 2007 03:50 PM


What so 'complicating' and 'baffling' about a touch screen? You touch and move things. Oh the complexity! I only wonder what these people thought of the mouse when it came out.

Anyway, I don't think touch screen would be the best for presentations. Standing in front of a screen does things, like blocking viewers from seeing anything... I agree with Dr. Curiosity's post.

PS - And what's so complicating about Power Point, egadams? You just type things on the a slide and insert a picture. Considering that's what everybody uses and nothing else, it's pretty simple.

Posted by: Chris at March 12, 2007 03:06 PM


Less is more-imagine 30 minutes of this, hell, 5 minutes is enough to make me tune out.

Besides, the presenter is so preoccupied with his material that he'll completely ignore the audience.

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I'm less interested in how this technology will make my managers more interesting to watch, and more interested in how effectively I can use this to better utilize my CAD software.

Posted by: Kevin at March 12, 2007 12:22 PM


It may be a more appropriate system for battle management than presentations, I can even see potential for home media centers in this.

Would be awesome for a computer game also, "global thermonuclear war" comes to mind :P hehe

Posted by: Roboto at March 12, 2007 10:43 AM


If you doubt the power of this Man Machine Inerface (MMI), two minutes in front of it will change your mind forever.

First off, at 4x8ft it is the largest touch enabled display around. It works great for powerpoint because the display is easy on the eyes, and the touch interface is trival to control.

It recognizes as as many touch points as you care to offer it; in full analog no less. This allows you to develop a suite of "gestures". Flying Google Earth full screen without the need for the control panel is a blast! Zoom in/out, pan, tilt, and rotate all with simple hand motions.

Just using an MTWall to drive PowerPoint would be a waist. The MTWall's real strength lies in its ability to manipulate graphichs (pics and maps).

This is the "next generation" in MMI technolgy. This is the thing that is gonna be on my TV in five years. PowerPoint is so 20th century... try to imagine life after windows. that is where Jeff's mind is.

Posted by: Dave at March 12, 2007 08:20 AM


Oh my God!

Power Point was bad enough! We need less complexity in presentations, not more. My experience is that even PowerPoint can be so difficult to use that it is an inhibition to a presentation.

Now I'm a techno-nerd, have been since the 60's, so I love this shit. But after years of helping my PhD and recent college graduate coworkers prepare simple presentations in PowerPoint, the idea of having somethin even more complex is just plain silly.

This is great for an application, and for presenation by a specialist, but as a genral presentation tool? Don't be rediculous.

Posted by: egadams at March 12, 2007 01:22 AM


Maybe its a good Idea, but without the new age music. I hear that and in a couple of minutes I am snoozing.

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Posted by: Aron Levy at March 11, 2007 11:11 PM


This is actually exactly the same, in principle, as what's used in the Apple iPhone's interface, the multitouch display. So it may make it into the mainstream much faster than you'd think. Like, say, June.

Posted by: Dave at March 11, 2007 09:22 PM


This kind of technology isn't really appropriate for replacing PowerPoint-style presentations. In fact, when Jeff Han was making a presentation at TED, the display was copied onto a large overhead projector so that people could see what he was doing, rather than just letting people look over his shoulder.

The strength of this kind of tech is that it allows people to visualise and interact with large amounts of data fluidly - that someone behind you can also get a look at what you're doing is useful (especially for peripheral awareness in a design or command-and-control space), but as a presenter you'd be blocking far too much of the surface with your interaction.

When it comes to taking in information using this kind of interface, it's far more appropriate for "learning by doing" interactive tasks than presentations. If you want to present well, you need to step back from the interface, or have it copied into another space where you won't be getting in the way.

[Note: I recently finished an MSc thesis entitled "Large-Scale Display Interaction Techniques to Support Face-to-Face Collaboration". I wouldn't call myself an _expert_ in the field just yet, but hopefully the insights are useful all the same.]

Posted by: Dr. Curiosity at March 11, 2007 07:48 PM


Perhaps an assistant could be responsible for working the presentation board thing whilst the other spoke with his back not turned to the crowd.

Posted by: David at March 11, 2007 06:52 PM


Anyone who has had training in presentations could tell you in a second that this is a bad idea. Your back is to the audience for God's sake! Rule #1 of presentations, never turn your back. Maybe if there was a way to do it turned around.

Posted by: Glenn at March 11, 2007 06:34 PM


Just fine. More junk to distract from the subject of the presentation. Baffle them with BS comes to mind!

Folks that push this are usually trying to baffle the audience so they don't realize the presenter don't know squat. Liberal Arts type just love it.

Posted by: Roger Tipton at March 11, 2007 06:00 PM


That might just be the coolest thing I've seen. Mr. Softy can KMA. I bet this display requires a ton of CPU/GPU power and RAM. Maybe a Quadcore/SLI PC is not enough after all, sweet.

Posted by: BT at March 11, 2007 05:50 PM


Dupe! :)

http://www.defensetech.org/archives/003199.html

Posted by: Cynu at March 11, 2007 04:27 PM


Absolutely amazing! A system like that could really revolutionize everything from presentations to data analysis.

Posted by: Andrew at March 11, 2007 04:19 PM


Wow! That looks a lot like something Apple is doing with their iPhone. Also, along the same lines as "Death to PowerPoint," I've seen a program called keynote that puts PowerPoint to shame.

Posted by: Mark S at March 11, 2007 04:03 PM


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