From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HkPvL-0006Fb-CV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 19:28:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l45JQf9R015594; Sat, 5 May 2007 19:26:41 GMT Received: from sccrmhc15.comcast.net (sccrmhc15.comcast.net [204.127.200.85]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l45JQehD015589 for ; Sat, 5 May 2007 19:26:40 GMT Received: from [71.237.219.233] (unknown[71.237.219.233]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc15) with ESMTP id <20070505192638015008k644e>; Sat, 5 May 2007 19:26:38 +0000 Message-ID: <463CDA6D.1080806@cesmail.net> Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 12:26:37 -0700 From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-desktop-research@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-desktop-research@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-desktop-research@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop-research] thesis - support - question - ideas ... References: <200705032331.34170.neugschwentner@comteam.at> <9999810b0705040419g7b0f05cagba57cdcac9a2122b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9999810b0705040419g7b0f05cagba57cdcac9a2122b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b9f12429-72d7-4caa-9e69-043638b7b8a6 X-Archives-Hash: f693b3153ad94ed96911bc8407199173 Derek Tracy wrote: > On 5/3/07, *Johannes Neugschwentner Jr* > wrote: > > Hi Guys! > > i'm writing a thesis on "the user-centerd desktop". > as part of the thesis i'm doing a prototype too. > > this is something i really longed to do for a long time and am now > about to > start. since i'm under a tight schedule and am not too good a > programmer with > not too much experience it ain't gonna be something big. > > but anyway. read some boox. surfed around. > found the plasma project ( plasma.kde.org > ). xinf.org (xinf.org > ). screenweaver > hx (http://haxe.org/swhx). of course there is superkaramba ... > > tend to doing it in haxe (eclihaxe + screenweaver hx) ... pretty > sure about > that since the only language i'm really fluent in is actionscript > and haxe is > not far from it (wanted to do it in flex before ... but prefer > haxe since > it's all open source) > > did some research on hci (designing interactions) ... am going to > do empirical > user research .... non-technical-useres .. > am doing some research on the piling metapher and lifestreams & co > at the mom. > > bumptop by the way with it's piling metaphor is really something very > appealing and those guys with their thesis did exactly what i'm > going to do. > (www.bumptop.com ) > > well, i'm not exactly sure what i wanna say or question with this, > but hey, > found out about this mailing list and thought - hey, sounds great, > give it a > shot. > > so if you got any ideas, proposals, whatever, here i am > > Cya, > > -- > Johannes Neugschwentner > > > > Johannes, > > You might want to consider looking at http://www.symphonyos.com/cms/ > they have the most unique approach to a user oriented desktop that I > have seen to date they are using Mozilla engine w/XUL so it shouldn't > be too difficult to program. > > > -- > --------------------------------- > Derek Tracy > tracyde@gmail.com > --------------------------------- Unfortunately, SymphonyOS died -- the founder ran out of his own money, essentially. UIs are a *huge* business, and while I applaud and encourage basic research and initiative, it's *very* difficult to turn such research and initiative into cash. That said, the sort of UI that I think of as the "UI of the future" would be a full virtual reality environment with which one could do "whole-body interaction" with a computer. How about an exercise bicycle with a keyboard and mouse on the handlebars? A wall-sized keyboard one could punch with boxing gloves? Drag-and-drop with objects that actually weigh something? -- gentoo-desktop-research@gentoo.org mailing list