{"id":7099,"date":"2012-09-03T13:29:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T20:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/?p=7099"},"modified":"2012-09-03T13:29:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T20:29:29","slug":"touch-gesture-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/2012\/09\/03\/touch-gesture-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Touch, Gesture &#038; Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tablets,\u00a0game systems, smart phones\u00a0and application like Siri all suggest a trend away from the inefficiencies of the keyboard for virtual interactions. \u00a0<strong>Touch, Gesture &amp; Voice<\/strong>\u00a0are some of the more \u201cnatural\u201d ways learners will access and immerse themselves in learning experiences.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Opportunity Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Learning technologies venture opportunities in\u00a0<strong>Touch, Gesture &amp; Voice<\/strong>\u00a0are bountiful in that the introduction of marketable versions of these new interfaces is very new and pedagogically appropriate design applications are still few and far between.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prediction Source(s): \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/12\/19\/tech\/innovation\/top-tech-trends-2012\/index.html\">CNN \u2013 2012 Tech Trends<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmc.org\/publications\/horizon-report-2012-higher-ed-edition\"><strong>NMC \u2013 2012 Horizon Report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tablets,\u00a0game systems, smart phones\u00a0and application like Siri all suggest a trend away from the inefficiencies of the keyboard for virtual interactions. \u00a0Touch, Gesture &amp; Voice\u00a0are some of the more \u201cnatural\u201d ways learners will access and immerse themselves in learning experiences. Opportunity Statement Learning technologies venture opportunities in\u00a0Touch, Gesture &amp; Voice\u00a0are bountiful in that the introduction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[325967],"tags":[14967,4963,1562],"class_list":["post-7099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-markets-poll","tag-emerging-markets","tag-poll","tag-touch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7100,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099\/revisions\/7100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}