I don't like input.
I don't like input.
Not input, as to a program, but input methods. Keyboards are limited, mice are limited and touchscreens are limited (mind you, I'm writing this on an iPod Touch). I want to be able to input things with bodily motion. Project Natal, that thing for PS3 Sony is working on, ad infinitum, are all excellent, but they don't work, frankly. Don't work. As in, I can't use them to work. I couldn't bring my xbox360 with Natal's controller into work and use it to do all my work, I'd be laughed out of the building and then fired. The thing is, I'm inherently horrible at scheduling. I only know where I'm going to be at a given time if someone tells me. How does this relate to input methods? I blame current input methods as the reason I cannot have an organized schedule. I would love to use Google Calendar synced via Exchange to my iPod Touch as my scheduling system. But each time I try I just give up. Why? I simply cannot enter information to it. I don't want it to be modal, I don't want to type things into it, I don't want to pull out a laptop or iPod or Hipster PDA (don't know what that is? Search Lifehacker) every time an event comes up. I want to be able to just gesture ridiculously and have the event on my calendar. So I am hereby suggesting a constant passive input method; Ridiculousness. Best name ever, I know, but it's just a working title (it's still better than Longhorn, jeez). It constantly monitors information that is around you, like people talking or websites you're browsing, and when you make a ridiculous gesture, it stores that info in a super everything box. This is why it's called Ridiculousness; the ridiculous gesture. The information is then either further processed by you or autoprocessed by an adaptive algorithm that can make decisions on what to do with the information, such as add a new calendar event if someone just said that you're going camping on the weekend after Thanksgiving. The algorithm could possibly also accept specific ridiculous gestures to do certain things, like add a calendar event or submit a programming project.
I will continue to think about this in the coming weeks, and continue writing on this subject, if it so pleases anyone.
Signing off,
Shelby
(*cough cough* Steve, this is partly to explain why I never know what I'm doing at any given time *cough cough*)
Not input, as to a program, but input methods. Keyboards are limited, mice are limited and touchscreens are limited (mind you, I'm writing this on an iPod Touch). I want to be able to input things with bodily motion. Project Natal, that thing for PS3 Sony is working on, ad infinitum, are all excellent, but they don't work, frankly. Don't work. As in, I can't use them to work. I couldn't bring my xbox360 with Natal's controller into work and use it to do all my work, I'd be laughed out of the building and then fired. The thing is, I'm inherently horrible at scheduling. I only know where I'm going to be at a given time if someone tells me. How does this relate to input methods? I blame current input methods as the reason I cannot have an organized schedule. I would love to use Google Calendar synced via Exchange to my iPod Touch as my scheduling system. But each time I try I just give up. Why? I simply cannot enter information to it. I don't want it to be modal, I don't want to type things into it, I don't want to pull out a laptop or iPod or Hipster PDA (don't know what that is? Search Lifehacker) every time an event comes up. I want to be able to just gesture ridiculously and have the event on my calendar. So I am hereby suggesting a constant passive input method; Ridiculousness. Best name ever, I know, but it's just a working title (it's still better than Longhorn, jeez). It constantly monitors information that is around you, like people talking or websites you're browsing, and when you make a ridiculous gesture, it stores that info in a super everything box. This is why it's called Ridiculousness; the ridiculous gesture. The information is then either further processed by you or autoprocessed by an adaptive algorithm that can make decisions on what to do with the information, such as add a new calendar event if someone just said that you're going camping on the weekend after Thanksgiving. The algorithm could possibly also accept specific ridiculous gestures to do certain things, like add a calendar event or submit a programming project.
I will continue to think about this in the coming weeks, and continue writing on this subject, if it so pleases anyone.
Signing off,
Shelby
(*cough cough* Steve, this is partly to explain why I never know what I'm doing at any given time *cough cough*)
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