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Re: Wearable UI, was Paradigms...

>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Parratt <> writes:

Robert> See below. No replies... please! Take everything with a :>

I'll take it all with a grin, after all that is how my origianl post
was meant, but if you didn't want replies you shouldn't have sent a
message, this is a list for discussion, after all.

Robert> Something that's ugly regardless of the environment it's under...

Thankfully, emacs is not ugly (at least it doesn't *sound* ugly to
me).  Since the user can control the way it looks, sounds and behaves,
I guess that if you *wanted* an ugly setup, you could *create* one
that is ugly to suit your tastes.

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

Odd, I control emacs with a single BAT, one hand, 7 keys total.  

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

True, speech input still has a way to go <grin>.  One reason I still
use emacs without it.

Eating cycles is an argument I have heard before, oddly enough as
configured emacs does not kick my cpu out of idle mode much so I don't
see it.  It is not *fast* but as an experimentor I am willing to
sacrifice some speed for flexibility and open source.

As for reducing my rig to a Timex/Sinclair well, I occationaly run
dosemu from *within* emacs, so I know there is at least the power of
an 8086 left over which I hope you will agree is more powerfull than a
TImex/Sinclair. <grin>

Emacs should not be the *end* of UI development (strictly speeking it
is not a UI anyway it just seems that way to those of us that live in
it) but as it is something many of us use day in day out on wearable
platforms that are our primary systems, it is at least a good
benchmark.  

I threw away my older wearable system 5 years ago when Linux + emacs +
emacspeak came around.  I hope I will be just as quick to toss them
when something that does more for me and is still Open Source comes
around.  I have a feeling that may take a while though...

Which all leads me to one question: What UI do you use on your
wearable?  How much of every day do you wear?  How is it on power
consumption?  How is it on resource management?  How is it in letting
you do what you need to do?  Do your posts to this list originate from
it?

I am keen to know.

Greg

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 Greg Priest-Dorman
       NO SOLICITING

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