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Re: Wearable UI, was Paradigms...

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----- Original Message -----
From: Greg E. Priest-Dorman <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 4:51 PM
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 that's ugly regardless of the environment it's under...

>
> 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...

As long as they have three hands to press the key combinations...

>
> Perhaps something that already has a large, non-wearing user base to
> help maintain and expand it...
>
> Something extensible, customizable, self-documenting...

And something that can destroy a high powered computers performance in nano
seconds, reducing the resources left to the rest of the system being akin to
a Sinclair/Timex ZX81...

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

Me too...

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

Same conclusion!

>
> Greg
>
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