wow, you have just described my Phd ;).. I have already created something very similar alone these lines ;).. I have called it Sulawesi, it's not perfect, there are considerable design issues which need to be worked out, but I have attempted it nethertheless..... checkout http://wearables.essex.ac.uk/sulawesi/index.html it's configurable, has a sort of documented API (heh you know what us programmers are like).. it's written in Java (for multi OS/architectures), provides a multimodal framework for multiple input and output devices.. etc.. it's also the only thing I can find which even attempts the wearable user interface issue.. (if anybody knows of other wearable UI I would be interested to hear about it).. I have a poster about it at iswc if anybody wants to talk longer/more indepth ;).. Regards Neill "Greg E. Priest-Dorman" wrote: > > > 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 > > -- > Greg Priest-Dorman >NO SOLICITING > > -- > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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