From: lonachon@anu.edu.au (andrew longhorn )
Subject: SCI: Feedback on object interaction/control ideas?
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 92 10:56:27 GMT
Organization: Australian National University



Hello? Anyone there? I floated a few ideas about object interaction
and control along with world structures. And the whole net went
quiet......

OOOOOOOOO........  (with sinister echo)

I wanted to clear 2 points.

1) I suppose the generic interface-object link thing I suggested
belonged in an HCI group more than here. I didn't mean it so much as a
required part of the protocol down to the level of twitching eyebrows,
but I wanted to present the idea as a fresh look at how processes
control objects. Although the actual interface for control is a
HCI-issue on the individual users platform, I think we should still
think of the "refined" commands (such as bend elbow 30 degrees, etc)
being sent to physical objects by users or non-user processes.

2) actually, I was intent on making (1) clear and forgot what (2) was,
I'll get back to you....

(thinks... maybe they have just all been stunned by my
brilliance...... NAAAAHHH, couldn't be).

P.S. Has anyone tried solving the
one-hand-in-a-glove-so-I-feel-like-a-typing-elephant problem by using
a righthand glove/lefthand chord keyboard combination? How about
recognising chord keyboard-like finger gestures from the glove? This
would seem to make more sense as typing then becomes not linked to the
spatial location of the glove.

Andrew Longhorn.

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