[adolph]

> ... because it's not a good way to control a computer?

This comment speaks to a perception problem for aural methods. The state of the mainstream art doesn't seem much past Forstall's demo of 10 years ago. [0] Are generations of people accustomed to WIMP UI able to wrap their heads around a much smaller interaction set? [1]

Gentner and Nielsen's work described in "The Anti-Mac Interface" [2] speaks to some of the differences people will have to mentally bridge such as:

  Mac | Anti-Mac
  Direct Manipulation | Delegation
  See and Point | Describe and Command
  WYSIWYG | Represent Meaning
  User Control | Shared Control
  Feedback and Dialog | System Handles Details
  Forgiveness | Model User Actions

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpGJNPShzRc

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-WIMP

2. https://web.archive.org/web/20120904231532/http://www.useit....