How Mobile Devices are Revolutionizing User Interaction

In the mobile device ecosystem, standardization is a key component of user interface, user interaction, and user experience development. Application Programming Interface (API) standards play an especially important role in connecting software to silicon, creating consistent development environments and accelerating media. The Khronos Group is a non-profit industry consortium creating open standards for the authoring and acceleration of parallel computing, graphics, dynamic media, computer vision, and sensor processing on a wide variety of platforms and devices. OpenGL, the graphics standard API from Khronos Group, is widely used for the foundation layer in GUI development in many types of projects: from personal devices including PC, iOS, and Android; to safety-critical applications such as avionics. OpenCL, the cross-platform parallel programming interface, is widely used for massive computation in fields such as machine intelligence and computer vision. Mobile devices require powerful new user interaction capabilities. Khronos open standard APIs enable applications to access capabilities such as the use of sensors to collect user and environment information, and processing power to manipulate and understand the sensor data. Recently, Khronos Group announced the release of new API standard, which can be used as the foundation layer for innovative user experience applications in the near future. This workshop is organized to discuss these new Khronos Group technologies, and to share the features and the UI/UX innovations that mobile devices may realize in the future.