AH! Just realized Andrei is describing exactly that-- that the mobile device becomes an extension of the laptop, not its brain, as the Modu concept proposes. So I could, say, minimize a document to my mobile, carry it over to a meeting room, and continue working on it on the room's large multitouch computer.
- N On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Nasir Barday <[email protected]<nbarday%[email protected]> > wrote: > 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
