As was mentioned before, there are interesting privacy issues about
this -- both the user's privacy in wanting to research without
letting their object of research know and the object's right not to
be researched. And then there's what seems to me to be the strange
and very invasive use of the object's body -- from a female
perspective, I'm sure I don't want some stranger at a networking
event trying to read my LinkedIn profile from my decolletage.
I know that eyeglasses were explored as far back at least as the
mid-1990s as a way of delivering contextual/environmental metadata to
users in an unobtrusive manner -- but I'm having trouble finding any
in depth, up to date information on them via Google -- there are
these teasers, however:
http://www.media.mit.edu/wearables/mithril/memory-glasses.html
and
http://www.springerlink.com/content/v65n333512374772/
Does anyone have any first hand knowledge/experience of them? I
wonder about about using them with the gestural interface shown in
Pattie Mae's demo?
On Apr 19, 2009, at 8:36 AM, Mary Specht wrote:
But it does raise interesting questions about how people would best
interface with this information. Projection may work for some things,
but what if you didn't want the other person you're meeting to know
that you're researching them? Could this information fit more
seamlessly into the interaction if you were getting it in an earbud,
for example? Or would that interfere too much with the real-world
conversation with this new friend?
Humans can process and use this information without swerving; we just
need to find the best delivery mechanism.
Joan Vermette
email: [email protected]
primary phone: 617-495-0184
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