Re: [Sugar-devel] Contextual video assistance

2010-05-04 Thread Mohan Raj R
Interestingly I found a few similarities between what I am imagining this system could do and this proposal http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2010/Insights ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

[Sugar-devel] Contextual video assistance

2010-05-03 Thread Mohan Raj R
I was watching this video and thought that it makes a lot of sense to have this feature in Sugar http://www.autodeskresearch.com/publications/toolclips#video Thoughts ? ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

[Sugar-devel] Sugar for the elderly

2010-04-11 Thread Mohan Raj R
I found this discussion (more than 2 years old) interesting http://www.olpcnews.com/use_cases/community/one_xo_laptop_grandmother.html Does anyone know of any progress along these lines ? (Is this the right list to ask this question? or IAEP?) You may be interested to know, your idea is already

[Sugar-devel] GSoC ideas for feedback

2010-04-08 Thread Mohan Raj R
I have been having some ideas for pushing the help system to the next level by embedding the power of the community knowledge directly in the UI using videos: See-Me-Do kind of thing. I came across some related projects http://www.autodeskresearch.com/projects/learning ToolClips One of the

[Sugar-devel] gsoc Ideas: interface for younger children

2010-04-06 Thread Mohan Raj R
Hello, I am Mohan, a Computer Science Masters student in UBC, Canada interested in GSoC. My area of study is Human Computer Interaction. My thesis is in the area of learnability issues (in content creation software). I believe that developing better interfaces to bring out the creativity of

[Sugar-devel] Porting LopArt to Sugar

2010-04-03 Thread Mohan Raj R
to the company that is developing the program. Mohan -- Forwarded message -- From: Mohan Raj R mohanraj@gmail.com Date: Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 9:08 PM Subject: Porting LopArt to Sugar To: ar...@loplop.com Hello, I am Mohan, a computer science masters student at UBC http://ubc.ca. I came