Date Night gestural interface
Mark Wahlberg uses his proficiency with a gestural computer interface as an instrument of seduction in Date Night
- from Date Night (2010)
- Creator: Shawn Levy
- Distributor: 20th Century Fox
- Posted by Critical Commons Manager
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Date Night gestural interface
by Critical Commons ManagerRomantic comedies are not usually the first place you would look for showcase scenes of contemporary or futuristic technologies, but in this unexpected and narratively superfluous scene from Date Night, Mark Wahlberg plays an ex-military intelligence specialist whose home computer system allows him to perform a virtuosic display of civilian surveillance. Wahlberg impresses Tina Fey with his adept manipulation of information systems via a gesture-based, translucent touch screen interface. This depiction of a "futuristic" haptic interface serving as a form of seduction suggests the potential for touch-based interfaces to transform conventional relations between bodies and computers.
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