fabio@dm.unibo.it (Fabio Vitali) (02/26/91)
In article <1991Feb21.024959.6698@cs.uoregon.edu> akm@cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) writes: >Does anyone know of a group devoted to issues about Human Computer >Interaction / User Interfaces? If there is none, how does one go about >setting one up? I, for one, would appreciate it very much. It's just that I don't think it would work. I mean, I read alt.hypertext and comp.groupware, and, apart for some (very few) messages from people needing advice, they are mostly dedicated to announcements for conferences and seminars. There is no flame, no sharing, no discussion on them. In short, they are moribund newsgroups. I fear very much the same would happen in the field of HCI. It is too broad a subject, with too many open issues about it, so that, I think, everyone would fear too much of starting a flame war on anything, and would not post anything that was not widely acceptable and, therefore, obvious, in such newsgroup. Anyway, I strongly agree on the necessity of this kind of subject. I just wish a little bit of sharing was going on on Hypermedia, Groupware, Human Computer Interaction, etc. They started pretty interesting, Nelson and such, and became boring and sooo academic and cautious ("You must have missed my paper at the III Conference on Hypertexts and Cabbages, which explained why such approach wouldn't work") not to be interesting anymore. >Please e-mail me, and I will summarize if there is interest. I didn't, not because I don't know how to do it, but because I wanted to light up the discussion a bit, here. I crossposted to alt.hypertext as well, and suggest to add also comp.mac.system, comp.amiga.something, comp.atari.something, comp.os.msdos.windows, comp.unix.xwindow, etc. (I don't actually know the names of most of those, so I leave the crossposting to someone else). So, please, don't email him, let's discuss it publicly. >kartik Ciao Fabio -- Fabio Vitali There's a clear morale to this tale, now that Dept of Computer Science I think about it: when you're dead you're dead. Univ. of Bologna ITALY And yet another morale occurs to me now: e-mail: fabio@dm.unibo.it make love when you can. It's good for you.
jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura) (03/01/91)
I agree that it would be nice to talk about HCI/UI, but what can we talk
about? Well, here's a topic:
Anyone know of any mail order companies that have the Mattel PowerGlove
for the Nintendo systems? I have the schematics for connecting it up to
my NeXT and a source program to play with, but no one in Ithaca sells them.
:-(
Also, does anyone have the tech docs for the PowerGLove? I'd like to
know exactly how to operate it (line-level signals and all) rather than
rely on someone else's code.
- Jiro Nakamura
jiro@shaman.com
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"Bring your dead, dying shamans here!" (607) 253-7809 FAX/Modemnews@linus.mitre.org (News Service) (03/01/91)
Therre is a problem with the PowerGlove - the data from it is encrypted. I have been working on a research proposal (following the one at the University of Virginia) to develop a virtual reality test bed using a Power Glove as a data input device. My friend at UVA ended up getting a "black box" from the manufacturer so he could use it. I beleive there is a thread on another BB about this, but I do not know the BB. From: bkillam@ccels3 (bill killam) Path: ccels3!bkillam Bill Killam
chalmers@EuroPARC.Xerox.COM (Matthew Chalmers) (03/06/91)
In article <1991Mar1.145023.29363@linus.mitre.org>, news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) writes: > Therre is a problem with the PowerGlove - the data from it is encrypted. I have > been working on a research proposal (following the one at the University of > Virginia) to develop a virtual reality test bed using a Power Glove as a data > input device. My friend at UVA ended up getting a "black box" from the > manufacturer so he could use it. I beleive there is a thread on another BB > about this, but I do not know the BB. > From: bkillam@ccels3 (bill killam) > Path: ccels3!bkillam > > Bill Killam This comes up every few weeks or so in the sci.virtual.worlds newsgroup. Check it out. Regards, --Matthew P.S. I doubt comp.cog-eng is the right place for discussion on the range of subjects I considered the original poster on this subject to be interested in. I suppose comp.graphics, comp.cog-eng, comp.groupware & alt.hypertext collectively cover the range, but somewhat incoherently due to the varying levels of 'techie-ness' in each. Shame.