Most computer companies hide what is being cooked up on news, but Microsoft has to show the traditi

by Ewald Smits about: Internet, software, design, equipment, computer on: August 28, 2007 The computer is human friendly, cuddly, digital and social ubiquity Four projects to lift a corner of the veil
The computer people friendly, cuddly, social and digital ubiquity, TVNZ reported recently based on interviews with employees of Microsoft's Cambridge Research Lab. What does that look like? Social Digital Systems
Most computer companies hide what is being cooked up on news, but Microsoft has to show the tradition precisely as possible what is going to come in the future. The business happy kitchen Social-Digital Systems is exploring opportunities for new people-friendly computers. Desktop PCs, notebooks and even phones have been grown out their strengths and can do almost happy kitchen everything together. For many users who work opportunities suffocating. The exchanges happy kitchen between psychology, sociology, design and computer science should lead to new insights. "After the era of the personal computer follows ubiquitous happy kitchen computing," says researcher Abigail Sellen NRC. "This next generation of ubiquitous computers will help you perform happy kitchen everyday actions, and you can simply operate with your fingertips or your voice." The design should serve human values, you predict happy kitchen behavior and respond happy kitchen accordingly. The family is an important source happy kitchen of inspiration. Four examples. 1 | Where About Clock
Who wants to know where the other family members in public, that may soon see the Whereabouts Clock. This clock made for the kitchen, indicates where each family member at that time: at school, at work, on the sports field or elsewhere. The Whereabouts Clock receives the required information via the mobile phones of family members. When a family member of one location (school) to another is (sports), the phone automatically sends an SMS to the clock with the new location. Which areas and / or locations you want the clock back you decide of course. When installing the software, not your desired zones. Family members who would rather not be displayed happy kitchen on the Whereabouts Clock can simply turn off their cellphones. For those who just wish to give more information about their activities at that time, which may pass through SMS to the clock. So a family member is in an undefined happy kitchen zone, but he is out shopping, he can Shopping via an SMS with the word to the clock by giving what his activities. The text will appear under the icon of the person on the clock. [More read in this pdf] 2 | Touch Talk
Touch Talk can be seen as a search for new forms of communication. Leave according to scientists at the Microsoft Research Cambridge lab user studies for years that people like to express themselves in innovative ways. At the same time want users like to have different communication happy kitchen channels available to them. They consider communication channels happy kitchen as tools and the more tools they have, the richer they feel in ways to express themselves. Touch Talk is the "engine" that allows happy kitchen experimentation. What the final form will be is far from clear.
With Augmented Reality Kitchen, the project has built a kitchen where technology really supports the user on all fronts. Who wants to bake a cake, receives each step of the recipe visually happy kitchen projected onto the kitchen (which consists of an LCD or plasma display). The necessary ingredients for the cake, feature RFID tags and are always in stock. Thereby let the illuminated handles the kitchen cupboards and drawers happy kitchen where necessary ingredients are. 4 | Bubble Board
The regular answering machine is urgently in need of replacement, they find from Microsoft. You can not see who has called, you do not know for whom the messages are intended and it is difficult to keep the messages and forward for example someone mailbox. happy kitchen With the Bubble Board include these negatives of the past. In fact, according happy kitchen to this Microsoft's first finger exercises on the way to a new answering machine 'can do much more. You might choose to whom you leave a message. Bubble Board uses the metaphor of water to visualize speech. When a voice mail is left behind, a bubble containing the photo or visualization of the one who called. New posts float on top, older bags steadily downward.
Knowing more? View the presentation Designing for Human Values in the Digital Age by Abigail Sellen Copyright of this article lies with the author. Quick links to this article online? happy kitchen Jump to: sync.nl/884 Tweet
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