Christopher Lambert wrote: > > At 10:25 PM 12/08/98 -0700, Legacy 'Xunker' wrote: > >If I may throw my hat into the ring, as it were, I think everyone would like > >to hear about my design for a low-cost wearable that I'm designing. > > I have been reluctant to bring a wearable into my life for several reasons, > not the least of which is that I don't work in an environment where it > would be well-received (a 3D/special effects house). Living in Silicon > Valley, I could get away with it as far as walking down the street goes. > Still, I've been wondering about the social implications of a HMD, or in > fact any (seemingly) obtrusive computer equipment, such as keyboard > arm-straps, a Twiddler, etc. Hmm. I'd think that an effects house would be rather accomodating to a wearable, seeing as they are doing all sorts of odd visual stuff all the time. > > In trying to incorporate these design considerations into a low-cost, > inobtrusive (relative to the average full-functioned abstract wearable > design most often tossed around this list) solution with the necessary > performance, I found myself at a loss to strike a balance between the > technology/convenience and the social ramifications. I like your idea for multiple input/output modes - this dovetails into the recent discussion of driving with a wearable. Having an audio-only mode would make this almost moot. > Let me propose a comparison: a meeting at a place of work. > > With conventional techniques: > > One could listen to what was being said and participate, > remembering/jotting down a single sentence for later reference. Or one > could pull out a record book, and take notes on relevant subjects. One > could even take minutes verbatim, for example at a conference. Or, as is common around here, type notes into your laptop during the meeting. > > With such a wearable computer as mentioned above: > > One could dictate, perhaps immediately following the adjournment of the > meeting, a summary through the audio interface, or perhaps record one's own > presentation or report. One could use a hidden or non-obvious keyboard or > pen interface to jot notes or even perhaps use the HMD (depending on the > tolerances of one's co-workers ;) to compose a verbatim transcript of > proceedings. I believe that at the hypothetical conference, this would be > completely accepted (as long as such transcripts were allowed, etc...). A wearable would be less-obtrusive than a laptop, and probably a PDA, given the input modes of current PDAs. The only big appearance problem is the display. -- Pete Hardie | Goalie, DVSG Dart Team Scientific Atlanta | Digital Video Services Group | -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.ml.org
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