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- 90-02/DEC
- From: good@baviki.enet.dec.com
- Subject: Presence, or Multi-Sensory I/O
- Date: 28 Feb 90 15:16:09 GMT
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- Someone asked for introductions of people working in
- this area, so here's mine:
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- I'm Michael Good. I'm with Digital Equipment
- Corporation's Software Usability Engineering group at
- Spit Brook Road in Nashua, New Hampshire. Our group's
- focus is on making our products more useful, usable,
- and appropriate for our customers.
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- I'm leading a small, distributed research project into
- what we call Presence, or Multi-Sensory I/O. Presence
- is the quality that we're looking for - the feeling of
- working on your problem rather than working on the
- computer. This is similar to the ideas of
- transparency, first-personness, and direct engagement
- that have been around for a long time in the usability
- area. Multi-sensory I/O is the technology that we're
- exploring to enhance presence. We're investigating how
- to support the senses of vision, touch, and hearing in
- the use of computers, using current technology like the
- VPL Research EyePhone and DataGlove, force-feedback
- joysticks, and MIDI synthesizers and samplers.
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- Our focus is on using participative design methods to
- work together with some of our customers to see how
- this technology might meet their needs in the future.
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- So far this newsgroup has provided me with a lot of
- good ideas. Let's continue sharing ideas so we can
- progress further together than we would separately.
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- Michael Good
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- Good@Baviki.Enet.Dec.Com
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