电子设备操控接口的未来

1万 · 2012-6-20 18:37

The Future of Navigating Your Next Electronic Device
电子设备操控接口的未来

By Mike McCauley, Product Manager Associate, Cypress Semiconductor
作者：Mike McCauley，产品副经理，赛普拉斯半导体

The explosive advances in today’s consumer electronic devices have changed the way we interact with them and what features we expect. What we once used to make calls on the go and send text messages with is now a mobile multimedia centre with the ability to access the internet, keep up with email, listen to your favorite songs, watch a movie, and download and run applications to do almost anything. Today’s latest smartphones are not only getting better, smaller, and faster, but the way consumers interact with them is also changing.
消费电子设备的爆炸性发展，改变了我们与设备之间的接口方式和我们所期望的功能。过去我们用来打电话和发短信的手机，如今已变成移动多媒体中心，可以上网、收发电子邮件、听音乐、看电影、下载与执行应用程序，几乎无所不能。现今最新的智能手机不仅功能更强、体积更小、速度更快，和消费者之间的接口方式也不断改变。

A simple set of buttons to navigate the user interface of a cell phone is now a sophisticated touch interface, full keyboard and/or navigation piece functioning much like a computer mouse. As the functionality of cell phones evolved to support functionality such as email and internet browsing, the original navigation interfaces were no longer adequate to support users’ needs. This demand saw the development of mechanical navigation tools (side wheels, track balls, multi-direction buttons and joy-sticks, etc.) as well as some of the more advanced systems we see today such as touch screen displays and optical finger navigation (OFN) track pads.
手机上的按键式用户接口，如今已演变成精密的触控接口、整组键盘与/或类似计算机鼠标的操控功能。随着手机功能的演进，能支持像电子邮件与浏览网络等功能，原来的操控界面已不再能满足使用者的需求。因此开发出了各种机械操控工具(侧滚轮、轨迹球、多指向按钮、以及游戏杆等)，还有一些更先进的系统，例如我们现在看到的触摸屏以及光学手指操控(OFN) 跟踪垫。

As smartphones continue to develop and offer additional functionality and productivity, the demand for advanced navigation tools to support these features and benefits becomes critical for consumers. For the business professional, the ability to edit and review documents on a smartphone, for example, requires precise pointer control for text editing. The consumer now demands advanced internet browsing, multimedia support, and gaming capabilities from their mobile device, all of which require detailed control functionality to better the gaming experience or ease internet browsing. The user interface is now becoming an important factor when customers decide on their next smartphone purchase. This demand has lead top smartphone manufacturers to consider OFN as a first choice technology to meet users’ needs.
随着智能手机的持续发展，其提供了额外的功能与更高的性能，消费者要求更先进的操控工具来支持这些功能。对于商务人士，其要利用智能手机进行编辑与察看文件，需要精准的光标控制功能以便编辑文字。现在消费者要求移动设备具备先进的网络浏览、多媒体支持、以及游戏功能，这些都需要精细的操控功能，才能享受更好的游戏体验或简单的网络浏览。用户接口已成为消费者在选购下一部智能手机时考虑的重要因素。因此各大智能手机制造商都将OFN视为满足使用者需求的首选技术。