Intel has launched an Interaction and Experience Research division, focusing on natural interfaces, such as touch, gesture and voice.

Projects include SENS, using sensors in devices to monitor a person’s real-time activities and displaying them live on the computers of networked friends and family; the use of projectors and 3D cameras to light up a tabletop or other flat surface, using an interactive Web portal that would recognize hand gestures and objects; and technology that would enable a computer to read a user’s thoughts.