This is all sounds akin to Mark Weiser's vision for tabs, pads, and boards: (if you're in a hurry, do a Ctrl+F for "Ubiquitous computers will also come in different sizes"): http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/SciAmDraft3.html
I'm not sold on the idea of a mobile as a central, dockable device-- at the end of the day, you're still interacting with (or carrying) multiple devices in your pocket, right? What are we winning here-- savings on buying the processor and memory over and over? I wonder if we could accomplish the same UbiComp greatness by making data flow effortless. You could say docking is a crude, physical way to get "easy data flow," but I think the interactions in this scheme would be richer if the devices remain as separate entities, not simply multiple views of the same device. - N ________________________________________________________________ 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
