Reading Your Mind: Interfaces for Wearable Computing

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hey cristeen

i just waisted a fricin hour of my life

lol@ drunktoaster! my thoughts exactly! ps: sailorbarsoom, i didnt say it was boring, i couldnt say that coz i didnt actually watch it! i said im not gonna watch it coz it MIGHT be boring! get the difference? :S

This was very interesting.

I wonder; if you could somehow track the fingers, you wouldn't need a physical keyboard at all. The system would be able to determine that, if there had been a keyboard, those specific finger movements would have written "I love you, but only on Tuesdays" or whatever.

We've looked at that idea. The problem is a lack of tactile feedback. How do you know when the button was "pressed?" One could use an audio beep or vibrations delivered from rings on the fingers, but no one has done formal studies on how that effects performance. Canesta did one study on their projection keyboard with OK results, but the user still has the tactile feedback of hitting the surface of the desk.

I hadn't really thought of that. I mean, there is a tactile feedback (I'm tapping with my fingers), but I have to admit that tapping a dest just doesn't feel the same as tapping a keyboard.

As for an audio cue, I'd guess a click/tap sound would be better than a beep. Don't know about vibration.

Ah well. Just goes to show that it isn't easy. If it were, we'd all be cyborgs by now.

If you have to watch the whole hour before you can determine whether or not it's bbooorriiinnggg then it isn't. A truly boring video will be obvious in much less than an hour.

BTW, this video is nearly an hour and a half.

":o im not watching 1 freakin hour."
Nobody says you have to...see the search box at the top? A whole world of videos suitable for you short-attention spanned dregs awaits within.

Anyhoo, awesome talk well worth the hours watch.

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