Re: Idea for OpenMoko: Kid Mode
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 11:33 -0600, Paul Jimenez wrote: How about a locked-down 'kid version' of the UI with touchable pictures for 'mommy', 'daddy', etc ? Maybe not even labelled, but just the pictures? Nice idea - I see where you're going with this, not making it too complex.. for slightly older kids though, you could also have an add friend button too, perhaps triggering auto-detection via bluetooth. Or games which only work at scheduled breaks during the school day. Most calculator applications I've seen on mobiles really suck.. but that could be an area of improvement too. Also, the back-end would not have to be locked down - parents could still connect to their kids Neo and get whatever information they feel they need. I'm not sure I'd want to write code to allow parents to eavesdrop on their kids, but it'd be easy to do once we start networking our Neo's to home/work machines and that infrastructure is solid. Schools themselves may find it appealing to be able to restrict cell-phone use during class, and with bluetooth, there's another option to distribute homework other than email or paper.. and with the stylus the kid could do their homework (whilst showing the working), on the bus ride home. Richard ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Idea for OpenMoko: Kid Mode
That is brilliant. As the parent of an 11-year old, I'd want a highly configurable profile: * Allow calls to/from (parents/grandparents/babysitter/etc.) anytime * Allow calls to/from (list of friends) between 4pm and 9pm weekdays, 10-10pm weekends only * Allow a maximum of (x) outgoing calls to friends per month * as above for incoming * as above for text messages Of course good parenting encourages us to build better trust with our children rather than depending on technology to solve our parenting problems but that's another discussion.. Perhaps consider this technology-assisted good parenting. Cool idea! Michael On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Paul Jimenez wrote: How about a locked-down 'kid version' of the UI with touchable pictures for 'mommy', 'daddy', etc ? Maybe not even labelled, but just the pictures? --pj ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
RE: Idea for OpenMoko: Kid Mode
I like this thread, although I'm not giving my $350 phone to my kids! Some of the high schools here have really strict rules against kids getting calls in class. I can understand it, but 1)Sometimes I need to contact my daughter and 2)She can't always remember how she left the ringer (on/off) So how about a button for, Silence HERE: takes a GPS reading and makes no sound w/in radius(n) of that location. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Franks Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 1:26 PM To: Paul Jimenez Cc: community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: Re: Idea for OpenMoko: Kid Mode On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 11:33 -0600, Paul Jimenez wrote: How about a locked-down 'kid version' of the UI with touchable pictures for 'mommy', 'daddy', etc ? Maybe not even labelled, but just the pictures? Nice idea - I see where you're going with this, not making it too complex.. for slightly older kids though, you could also have an add friend button too, perhaps triggering auto-detection via bluetooth. Or games which only work at scheduled breaks during the school day. Most calculator applications I've seen on mobiles really suck.. but that could be an area of improvement too. Also, the back-end would not have to be locked down - parents could still connect to their kids Neo and get whatever information they feel they need. I'm not sure I'd want to write code to allow parents to eavesdrop on their kids, but it'd be easy to do once we start networking our Neo's to home/work machines and that infrastructure is solid. Schools themselves may find it appealing to be able to restrict cell-phone use during class, and with bluetooth, there's another option to distribute homework other than email or paper.. and with the stylus the kid could do their homework (whilst showing the working), on the bus ride home. Richard ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community NOTICE: This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information of Motricity. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
RE: Idea for OpenMoko: Kid Mode
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Sam Kome wrote: I like this thread, although I'm not giving my $350 phone to my kids! Not yet, no. My daughter gets my current phone as soon as I get the Neo 1973 (unless my wife wants it - she has priority.) My daughter gets my Neo V1 when V2 comes out! My goal of a Linux-only household extends to our phones :-) M ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Idea for OpenMoko: Kid Mode
Well, but what about any free-lessons? I know your problem very well, being a student myself. I tried to solve it like you did, coding an application which selects - depending on the cell-id my phone supplies - the right profile. But I often get calls in times we have no school. The phone just don't knows about it, well, how should it, so I miss them because I don't hear/fell any action of my phone. So, I think, a GPS AND time based selection would be great. I don't really know if it'd be possible for the phone to filter the incoming audio for the signal of the bell, but that'd be the best solution in my opinon. However, the idea itself is just great! Greetings, Fabian Am Mittwoch, 24. Januar 2007 19:38 schrieb Sam Kome: I like this thread, although I'm not giving my $350 phone to my kids! Some of the high schools here have really strict rules against kids getting calls in class. I can understand it, but 1)Sometimes I need to contact my daughter and 2)She can't always remember how she left the ringer (on/off) So how about a button for, Silence HERE: takes a GPS reading and makes no sound w/in radius(n) of that location. ___ Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Squeak for the kids! Use Linux-vserver power before giving your Neo to a kid (or someone else) Re: Idea for OpenMoko: Kid Mode
Salve Sam! On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Sam Kome wrote: I like this thread, although I'm not giving my $350 phone to my kids! In case that I would have kids, I wouldn't either, it is because of the price, but also because it isn't rough enough. Some more stuff for kids: see my mail OpenMoko/Neo1973 is pure (r)evolution :))) - do you recognized the power of multi-touch gesture recognition http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2006-November/000258.html Robert Michel schrieb am Samstag, den 25. November 2006 um 04:22h: And for inspiration, remember the video about the squeak educational software, written in Smalltalk-80 (just for inspiration - I will not propose any language/enviroment to use with OpenMoko ;) http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-7680106513348266522q=Squeak (19 Min.) Imagine to combine something like that with a multi-touch screen : And while we were looking for a Wifi chip with open driver, we got a tip to see what chip the http://www.laptop.org project is using. So for this thread, beside that the OLPC laptop has more Pixel: Resolution: 1200 (H) × 900 (V) resolution (200 dpi) I expect that some educatial stuff from OLPC will be usable for OpenMoko devices. And linux-vserver could help, that a parent give his Neo1973 to his childes in the Kid mode without the danger, that they - doing expensive calls - bother your most important client or your boss - delete all your important data or what ever... Cheers, rob ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
