Discussion Archive: October 2004

³ Cellphone, yes! Wallet, yes! Keys, no! ²

Isn't it better when machines do the dirty work for us homo sapiens:

Smart fabrics make for enhanced living

To make a bag that prevents people forgetting things, Nanda and Cable have
equipped a module with a radio antenna and receiver. The unit is programmed
to listen for signals from radio frequency identification (RFID) tags on
objects like cellphones, keys and wallets.

A sensor module in the bag¹s handle detects when the bag has been picked up,
indicating that the owner might be leaving.

managing keyboard shortcuts..

Hi,

Does anyone have any advice/tools for managing complex Windows based
application keyboard shortcuts?

Jason.
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Touchscreen Question

I'm working on a touchscreen UI application at the moment, and as many
of you know, such interfaces present pretty interesting challenges.
This project is especially interesting in its complexity; it deals with
pretty vertical domain knowledge and its users need extremely flexible
and freeform methods of interaction with the kiosk...tons of buttons,
which certainly creates rather interesting issues of screen real estate
at 1024x768. ;-)

Naturally, this had made me very aware of touchscreen UI's I've used
recently.

File systems.

Hi,

Does anyone have any information (or know where I could some) —
research data etc. — how well the average user (consumer) understands
the hierarchal folder based filing systems implemented into OSs at
present?

My suspicion (through observing people in various types of research) is
that while hierarchal files and folders are familiar and therefore easy
they relate to it, they're really 'understood'.