哈里森与微软研究院（Microsoft Research）和卡耐基梅隆大学的一名同事一道开发了一个移动式互动系统的原型机。这个名叫OmniTouch的系统可以把包括人体在内的任何界面当成屏幕。OmniTouch与哈里森发明的另一个人体界面项目Armura都提供了一种新的遥控方式，也就是将人类与媒体的互动融合为一种更简单的东西——即环境本身。

    那么，遥控的未来会是什么样子？西蒙称：“我们需要把新的、优秀的互动技术和界面设计融入到遥控器中，此外还有兼容性、众包等。我们绝对需要这些，因为这些正是消费者希望购买的东西。消费者之所以买我们的产品，而不是买有线电视的产品，就是因为他们需要创新。”与此同时，厂商也会试验语音、手势和触摸控制功能。而消费者也会在手势和按钮之间做出自己的选择。至少，这一次遥控器终于迎来了一次进化，乔•斯丁齐亚诺时代的电视观众为了这个进化已经足足等了50多年。

    本文作者利兹•丹兹科是礼堂艺术学院（School of Visual Arts）MFA互动设计项目的负责人和共同创始人。她既是设计师，也是教师和编辑，有时也在Bobulate.com上发表文章。

    译者：朴成奎

    Together with Microsoft Research and a CMU colleague, Harrison prototyped a mobile interaction system, OmniTouch, that turns any surface, including the human body, into a screen. Both OmniTouch, and another of his on-body interface projects, Armura, offer a new evolution of control—one where human interaction with our media experience dissolves into something much simpler: the environment itself.

    So what this the future of the remote control? "We need to bring great new interaction and interface design to the remote control itself, the compatibility, the crowdsourcing. We absolutely need that because that is what the customer is buying. They demand innovation when they buy our product as opposed to when they buy a cable package," Simon says. Meanwhile manufacturers will experimenting with voice, gesture, and touch and consumers will play, voting for their choice with gestures and buttons on how to put the control in the remote experience. At least finally this is an evolution, one Joe Stinziano's audience has been waiting to hear about for more than fifty years.

    Liz Danzico is chair and co-founder of the MFA Interaction Design program at the School of Visual Arts. She is part designer, part educator, and part editor, who writes part of her time at Bobulate. Follow @bobulate on Twitter.