Read This: The Arrival of Interactive TV via Your Phone and Laptop

Even with the best interfaces - and few TV interfaces would qualify as among the best of anything - it's a special kind of frustration to watch someone else manipulating a cursor or some other kind of U.I. selector while you, as a passive viewer, have no control over where it goes or what it does. This is what makes the televisions screen so different from other screens: our phones, laptops and tablets are single-user experiences but a television is a communal experience. What's tolerable to me as I decipher and negotiate an app's interface is tedium incarnate to observers - plus it just makes for bad television.

Designer Khoi Vinh explores the reality of interactive TV, and how it hasn't come from TV designers or manufacturers; cell phones, tablets and laptops gave us search, commentary, sharing and more without the need to touch the living room's primary screen.

Read This: The Arrival of Interactive TV via Your Phone and Laptop originally appeared on Switched on Sun, 20 Feb 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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