In article <6tosm3$dbc$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, maskdman@my-dejanews.com wrote: > (mail address sans X's: richX@Xucsd.edu) > > Perhaps I'm being too idealistic here, but it seems to me that the least > obtrusive input/output modality would be audio, not video/keyboard substitute. > There are many benefits: it is comparitively to listen to audio information > while doing other tasks (and isn't that the point of wearables?), while > reviewing visual information while trying to do other things is somewhat > distracting. Well, Via has a machine just like what you're speaking about, the Via2. No video out, just audio. > A combination earbud headphone and bone conduction microphone would be much > more > unobtrusive than a boom-mounted display, to boot. Personally, the thought of > an intelligent assistant whispering things in my ear and responding to my > speech is much more palatable than having to deal with a HMD. Ah, but what about muttering to yourself all the time? > True, there are issues; speech recognition and synthesis isn't easy. However, > I see speech (and other audio, perhaps) input and output to be greatly helpful > in bringing people much closer to ubiquitous computing. > > Comments? Am I way off base here? Is there a bunch of research being done > in this area that I may not be aware of? Your feedback is appreciated, and > anyone who wishes to forward this to the mailing list (I'm not on it) may do > so. Well, my only caveat is that not all data is friendly to Audio output, and with audio you are forced to work witht he information at the speed the synthesizer spits it out at you. I think aduio interfaces are probably a great idea when used in tandem with a HUD of some sort, if for nothing else than an audio altert telling you to put your HUD on and see what you're wearable is trying to tell you. My personal Approch is a jetson-esqe approch, mostly because I can't afford a HMD. I'm going to be using an LCD 4x20 display available from LinuxCentral. The one with a keypad interface. The brains will be, for the time being, an old HP95lx palmtop I pulled from a rubbish heap. The setup would be something like have the LCD, which is only a few CM, strapped to my wrist in place of my wrist-watch, a few buttons below the display, and either a twiddler type keyboard or a small 'chicklet' keybard on the back of my palm. The HP95lx brain would be be on a bely pack or, even better, stapped to my leg like a bowie knife, with an external battery pack to power the LCD and its backlighting. Then, if I'm feeling up to it, run an earbud earphone from the CPU's internal piezo speaker into my ear so it can give me subtle audio cues. It'll be running on MS-DOS, but as soon as ELKS get serial support, I'll port it all to that. -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum
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