sdm@cs.brown.edu (Scott Meyers) (09/08/89)
I'm taking a graduate seminar on user interface technology this semester, and I'd like to get information on uses of audio and video in interfaces. I'm not a hypercard user myself, but I know that hypercard provides hooks for audio and video capabilities, and I'm interested in finding out how these capabilities are being used or could be used. It's not difficult to imagine straightforward applications such as playing back prerecorded sounds or images, but I'd like to hear about less commonplace ideas. For example, I can think of various possibilities for sound as an output device: monitoring the background load by changing the volume (or pitch or whatever) as the load changes, announcing the arrival of new mail by making some kind of noise (possibly influenced by characteristics of the mail, e.g., who it's from, what the subject is, etc.), profiling the resource usage of a program by adjusting the sound to indicate how much of a resource is being used, etc. I'm sure there are similar applications of video, although I have to confess to being short of ideas in this arena. If you have any ideas or experiences you'd be willing to share with me, I'd love to hear them. They need not be limited to hypercard. Since I don't subscribe to this newsgroup, please reply to me directy via email. Thanks, Scott Meyers Brown University sdm@cs.brown.edu