Gestural Communication in Collaborative Physical Tasks - “The focus of our research is on the ways people communicate through speech and gesture as they perform collaborative physical tasks.” > HCII - CMU
Archive for October, 2006
Gestural Communication in Collaborative Physical Tasks [HCII - Carnegie Mellon University]
Published by Salif October 31st, 2006 in phisical interaction. 0 CommentsDesign of a Wearable Tactile Display - wearablegroup.org
Published by Salif October 31st, 2006 in phisical interaction. 0 CommentsDesign of a Wearable Tactile Display - “This paper presents our work in optimizing the design of a tactile display and discusses some of the issues and opportunities surrounding tactile displays for wearable computers.” - The Wearable Group at Carnegie Mellon (An interdiciplinary team of research in the area of pervasive computing.)
Wireless Entertainment Desktop 8000
Published by Salif October 30th, 2006 in modelos de teclado. 0 CommentsMicrosoft Hardware Brings to Light First Rechargeable Wireless and Backlit Desktop.Microsoft Hardware is evolving and transforming the desktop computing experience with the industry’s first wireless rechargeable and backlit desktop, the Wireless Entertainment Desktop 8000, dubbed the “ultimate keyboard” when it was unveiled in June.
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Upravlator inbound e Optimus - Art Lebedev
Published by Salif October 25th, 2006 in modelos de teclado and layout e design. 0 Comments”Art Lebedev, creator of the Optimus concept device, Optimus mini three, etc. has had some news to churn in the past couple of days, so let’s get started: the big Optimus is still on track, but will no longer use OLEDs. Instead, it will use 32 x 32 displays (presumably LCDs), and they’re aiming to […]
“Developers have not yet come up with input devices that allow more sophisticated communication between humans and computers. It might be possible to develop user interfaces enabling, say, a violin player to generate sounds with the computer. Other devices could be used to implement a design process for modelling clay on the computer. Toys could […]
‘Mental typewriter’ controlled by thought alone
Published by Salif October 25th, 2006 in phisical interaction. 0 CommentsNewScientist.com - “The machine makes it possible to type messages onto a computer screen by mentally controlling the movement of a cursor. A user must wear a cap containing electrodes that measure electrical activity inside the brain, known as an electroencephalogram (EEG) signal, and imagine moving their left or right arm in order to manoeuvre […]
Unicode and Keyboards on Windows
Published by Salif October 24th, 2006 in layout e design. 0 Comments“As has been described in this paper, the inner workings of keyboards are more complicated than a developer would probably like them to be. What is crucial is understanding the association between the virtual keys, the scan codes and the shift states in a keyboard. In addition, developers should understand the relationship input has to […]
Apple Human Interface Guidelines > User Input > The keyboard
Published by Salif October 24th, 2006 in modelos de teclado and layout e design. 0 Comments“The keyboard’s primary use is to enter text. The keyboard may also be used for navigation, but it should always be an alternative to using the mouse.(..) There are four kinds of keys: character keys, modifier keys, arrow keys, and function keys. A character key sends a character to the computer. When the user holds […]
LED BACKLIT “DURALIGHT” KEYBOARD - NSI
Published by Salif October 24th, 2006 in layout e design and modelos. 0 Comments“The “Duralight” series features an 80 key industrial keyboard with an integrated 38mm industrial trackball. The unit uses high brightness white LED’s and the carrier plate acts as a light guide, lighting not only the key legends, as in most LED backlit keyboards, but also the key edges, the trackball contour and even possible customer […]
