Organic user interfaces (OUI) means user interfaces with non-planar displays that may actively or passively change shape through analog physical inputs. OUI vision is influenced by highly related areas of user interface research, most notably Ubiquitous and Context aware computing, Augmented reality, Tangible User Interfaces and Multi-touch Input. OUIs naturally incorporate some of the most important concepts that have emerged in HCI, haptic, robotic, and physical interfaces, computer vision, the merging of digital and physical environments and others. There has been a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship between advances in basic computing technologies and HCI research. New technologies develop new interface paradigms, while new interface utilizing these emerging technologies encourage their continued refinement by revealing aspects most useful in their application.
