libertango | Interfaces

So my boss circulated a pointer to this gestural table-top interface from Microsoft. And it is visually striking.

But that's the problem. It seems to me this is yet another attempt to recreate the interface shown in Minority Report (the iPhone would be another, writ small)... with zero consideration whether it'll actually be productive, or comfortably ergonomic, or... anything other than cool looking. Which is great for a Studio Movie, but lousy in the real world.

This got me to wondering just who designed the original in Minority Report in the first place. My guess would be a high-end CGI art director, with little concern about usability. Which wouldn't be the first time a movie has set a field back (think about the negative fallout in the AI field from 2001).

But I can't find anyone willing to take credit. Google searches yield nothing, and while IMDb's full credit list has lots of names, none of them are called out for "interface design," or "computer search sequence."

So, if AKICOLJ... Who did it?

Thanks in advance.