I'm afraid I've had a delay in getting this off so some has already been covered...
I understood the SW that Dan originally referred to be the SW that facilitates the application of globally understood meaning to the data. By having this common understanding, one can make then make inferences across the data. Whilst one can apply semantics with mark-up, its very limited if one's heading is 'bills' is that duck bills or what you ask the waiter for (checks). As to the original question, I agree with Gloria's suggestion that the hand-held will become increasingly important. In fact the Tim Berners-Lee et al key article in Scientific American<http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00048144-10D2-1C70-84A9809EC588EF21>, is about hand-helds in context sensitive situations. He uses an example of organising care for a relative but it could be anything where external relationships (of all kinds) impact on a desired activity. >From a UI perspective, the SW will hopefully increase the quality of data so >e.g. if you search for tables, you can specify that you mean 'furniture' and >not a set of 'figures'. This may allow the more elaborate search results >presentation e.g. if you only provide few high quality results, you may want >to display more data about those results. Patterns of presentation may be >developed whereby data from different sources is identified or given >prominence. As Alex mentions, SW apps may require a lot more trust, if your app has made inferences across a load of data and come up with a solution then will you trust it? How will the interface flag what's coming from a trusted source and what isn't? Incidentally, I stumbled across this recently which appears to have some interesting resources wrt UI and the SW - IPGems<http://www.ipgems.com/swui/> Ivor Ivor Tillier Senior Web Producer [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
