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RE: Wearable UI, was Paradigms...

<Topical Shameless Plug>

We have done something along this line here at
WearableTech Corp.  We first designed a easy to use
wearable specific UI and then added functionality.

It is in Java so it will run on many platforms (minus:
OS specific API's such as ViaVoice for Windows)

This software, named Edeus (pronounced "E" - "D" - us)
allows the user to view HTML, Text, Image, Sound, Video.
As well write text into forms or freely.  The real power
is in the KDF (Knowledge Data Format) which allows
you to organize the media listed above into procedures
and tasks.

All of this is done in one window so you don't have to
navigate through multiple screens/programs.
</Topical Shameless Plug>

Ken Williams

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-----Original Message-----
From: Greg E. Priest-Dorman [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 10:52 AM
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Subject: Wearable UI, was Paradigms...

>>>>> "L.X." == Legacy Xunker <> writes:

L.X.> ...On a similar note, instead of a 'wearable OS', how about just
L.X.> a Wearable UI, like a Window Manager designed for the
L.X.> intricacies of the use?

Thanks for bringing this thread back to wearables.

As you suggest, I to would much rather talk about UI than OS.  So,
here are my thoughts on UI:

Something that will run on many OS's and architectures available to
the experimenter and is distributed as open source.

Something that doesn't care if you are using speech, a windowing
system, braille, mouse, puffer switch, a 40x6 text only display or all
of them at once...

Something robust enough to let you do system tasks, email, listen to
mpegs, control external devices, all with a consistant user interface
that users controls and can customize all they like...

Perhaps something that already has a large, non-wearing user base to
help maintain and expand it...

Something extensible, customizable, self-documenting...

Now that I think about it, it sounds kind of familiar...

Wait a second, let me check the Emacs documentation and see what I can
find...

Greg

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