Good morning Rob and list
I am a research masters student at Curtin University in Western Australia.
My thesis is to do with developing a new HCI for braille keyboard devices.
I have tested the BrailleNote and PacMate and have undertaken a literature
review on the area of HCI and GUI interfaces. I also reviewed the
BrailleSense. Each manufacturor is trying to approach the problem of a
braille Keyboard PDA in a different way.
I chose the BrailleNote for my own PDA because it offered an interface based
on interlinked menus, prompts and short cut keys and because it had
excellent built in help. I was not looking to interface the device with
outlook and wished to be able to write everything in braille.
I think the BrailleNote Hardware needs updating and that it needs to become
a multi-tasking system with the equivalent of a start menu key and a running
applications type key and a way to move between open windows of a particular
application.
In its current state the user does not interact with windows concepts at all
except perhaps on the web.
The underlying OS could be Linux but I don't know if the developers at
Humanware could write for Linux.
Currently the interface on BN is more similar to that provided by Apple than
by windows. It is more secure than windows too.
regards
Ian Blackburn
LT
10th North beach
The Boys' Brigade
http://boys.brigadeaustralia.org/
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