simon pope - seminar - nelson & englebart

Nelson comes across as a bit of a mavrick in the computing industry,with beliefs to make computers easily accessible to ordinary people,A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.

He triggers his influence in the industry , and is always developing ideas that programmers are scratching their heads over.with ideas of linking one link to another and keeping it.As a system that stops the decay of memory to stop the natural occurence of forgeting, so nelson tries and suceeds in developing ways that we can overcome this natural inability to hold information forever.

Doug englebart

PYTHON

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very high level dynamic data types
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ted nelson & Douglas Englebert

Douglas Engelbart demonstrated the first computer mouse at the Fall Joint Computer Expo in San Francisco on December 9, 1968. Engelbart also demoed the chord keyset (on left) that was a keyboard used with five piano-like keys. Englebert worked at the Stanford Research Institute which was also perfecting the acoustic modem at this time. Other technologies demonstrated during the landmark 90 minute session included hypertext, object addressing, dynamic file linking, and shared-screen collaboration in which two persons at different sites communicated over a network via both audio and video.

He also worked on a project to augment the human intellect, as part of the Augment project he demonstrated Hypertext and video conferencing.

Douglas Engelbart is one of the most influential thinkers in the history of personal computing. He is best known as the groundbreaking engineer who invented the mouse, windows, e-mail, and the word processor. Engelbart led one of the most important projects funded by ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) in the 1960s: a networked environment designed to support collaborative interaction between people using computers. It was named the NLS (oNLine System). This prototype, developed at the Stanford Research Institute, and presented in 1968 at the Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, influenced the development of the first personal computer and the graphical user interface at Xerox PARC in the early 1970s.

Ted Nelson is a somewhat controversial figure in the computing world. For thirty-something years he has been having grand ideas but has never seen them through to completed projects. His biggest project, Xanadu, was to be a world-wide electronic publishing system that would have created a sort universal libary for the people.He is known for coining the term "hypertext." He is also seen as something of a radical figure, opposing authority and tradition. He has been called "one of the most influential contrarians in the history of the information age." (Edwards, 1997). He often repeats his four maxims by which he leads his life: "most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong." (Wolf, 1995)

He was the sole creater of xanado
Xanadu was concieved as a tool to preserve and increase humanity's literature and art. Xanadu would consist of a world-wide network that would allow information to be stored not as separate files but as connected literature. Documents would remain accessible indefinitely. Users could create virtual copies of any document. Instead of having copyrighted materials, the owners of the documents would be automatically paid via electronic means a micropayment for the virtual copying of their documents.

THE XANADU MODEL
The Xanadu model has always been very simple: make content available with certain permissions; then distribute and maintain documents simply as lists of these contents, to be filled in by the browser (in the same way that browsers now fill in GIFs). This list of contents is effectively a virtual file of contents to be sent for and how to put them together.


http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html
Ted Nelson - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson

seminar four: sustainability
SustainabilityChallenge is getting awareness of sustainabilityGreen awardsSustainable Product design - innovation - seminarsMaters module in Product Design at UWICEcofriendly carsFilm -Al Gore - Substainable futuresEvan Davies Economist editor BBC - Interview Richard Branson - Set up Venture Capitol FundStagecoach - Put profits into this fundResearching new fuelsChina - pollution - building new powerstationsBritain reaching tippping point - aware of the sustainability issues and are ready to think about / discuss these mattersPeter Gabriel interview - notices upcoming technologies - he's noticing Citizen journalismwww.filter.comOpportunities in SustanibilityCarbon offsetting - World Bank pushing this - search internet on on-line toolswww.carbonneutral.comTravel correspondent from Guardian - Airpot crisis when hand luggage was to be put in the hold. trying to raise the awareness whether they actually needed to fly anyway. Could they use video conferencing or other techology to communicate over distance without the need to fly.imagine online system where you could be virtually face to face. Digitally signing of contracts.Trust issues - establishing a relationship over distance.Virtual worlds - perfect replica worldOn-line virtual environment - Second life.comRFID tags - wearable technologiesRFID tagging of car parts - trace where the car parts are - find the closest to you - track the parts coming to you when all rfid tags are together theparts are all thereDepartment of trade of industry (nano distributers unambiguos) chipping cabbages pigsTransport for London -Traveline Wales -Integrated transportCarshare networksRACgps - traffic updates - warns driver of traffic congestionnumberplate readersface recognition times squarein this country for protesters and football hooligans

REDESIGN update

Design For Interaction – HCI
Lecturer - Debbie Lamont
Ba/Bsc Design For Interactive Multimedia
Written By Marc Healy
Re-Design Report And Prototype analysis.
Chosen Device to Re-Design - Road Com / In Car Satellite Navigation.

THE TASK
The task that was given to each user was to find the location specific keypad, from there they would have to in put Cardiff into keypad and then view the map page to find there GPS location.

The keypad is merely a prototype , so Cardiff was only able to be punched into the information bar above.

Redesign Assignment - Debbie Lamont

SOrry i have had problems uploading my word file onto blogger theres something wrong with my laptop. anyways ive sent you the file with the documented report to your email.cheers


I couldnt upload the proper version of the prototupe as it is a flash projecter file and not a swf file.I have therefore put a link to a mock up of the prototype.
here is the url:
http://media.putfile.com/flash-redesign

i will hand you the full file monday for the full version.