Greetings all, Sorry for the lack of communication, but it's been a bit hard after surgery to use a computer, and all my time was taken up with the incident concerning NRWlion.
Anyway; I have the first experiment I'd ask you all to perform. Take a device; it could be your mobile phone, your computer, etc; and install/use a method of speech feedback; for instance, I recently transferred to KDE, and KDE's text-to-speech system, Jovie, and set it to say things like "Dante, you have a new message" when I get an email or "Hello, Dante" when I turn the computer on. The purpose of this experiment is to see where feedback would be (roughly) helpful; find out what this system needs to say, and what it does not. Keep it on even when it annoys you (otherwise it's a bit pointless doing an experiment). For instance, right now Jovie will speak up everytime someone asks for me on IRC, or engages in a PM with me if the IRC client isn't focussed. If I move the system's focus to the IRC client, Jovie will not activate on events. From this, I learn that it is annoying to have it watch for focus, and activate when I'm focussing on something else, even if it's just for a second; so a timeout function would be appropiate in this circumstance. Please run the exepierment for a week; you'll encounter situations where it is useful, and where it is annoying. This is the purpose of this experiment. -- --Danté Ashton Synthetic Intellect Institute -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~wintermute-psych Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~wintermute-psych More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
