{"id":385,"date":"2005-07-12T01:28:33","date_gmt":"2005-07-12T01:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/385"},"modified":"2005-07-12T01:28:33","modified_gmt":"2005-07-12T01:28:33","slug":"wrist-top-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/385","title":{"rendered":"Wrist-top computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Marcus of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amanda.com\/\">AMandA<\/a> just gave a talk promoting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.almaden.ibm.com\/cs\/user\/npuc2005\/bio.shtml#Aaron\">wrist-top computer<\/a> as a prime ubiquitous computing platform. I&#8217;m skeptical \u2014 It feels to me like the wrist is good for quick access to info that&#8217;s already showing or just a button-press away, but if you have to drill down (pushing small buttons with your wrist in front of your face) then that quick-access gets washed out by the slow interaction speed. That leaves a pretty narrow set of applications where you just a little bit of information with very little cognitive load.<\/p>\n<p>Reasons to work on wrist:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>quick access for quick snippit of visual info<\/li>\n<li>fashionable on wrist (bracelet)<\/li>\n<li>quick access for interaction (a little better than phone clip?)<\/li>\n<li>need wrist access (e.g. pulse monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Reasons not to work on wrist:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>small screen<\/li>\n<li>very limited input possible<\/li>\n<li>anything you need to look at for a while (wrist gets tired of being held in that position).<\/li>\n<li>needs hardening (so it won&#8217;t break when you bang it on something)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So what applications have the wrist-top as the clear winner interface? Well, there&#8217;s telling the time, there&#8217;s textual alarms, there&#8217;s &#8230; um &#8230; gimme a second, there&#8217;s gotta be more &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati tag: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/npuc2005\" rel=\"tag\">npuc2005<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Marcus of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amanda.com\/\">AMandA<\/a> just gave a talk promoting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.almaden.ibm.com\/cs\/user\/npuc2005\/bio.shtml#Aaron\">wrist-top computer<\/a> as a prime ubiquitous computing platform. I&#8217;m skeptical \u2014 It feels to me like the wrist is good for quick access to info that&#8217;s already showing or just a button-press away, but if you have to drill down (pushing small buttons with your wrist in front of your face) then that quick-access gets washed out by the slow interaction speed. That leaves a pretty narrow set of applications where you just a little bit of information with very little cognitive load.<\/p>\n<p>Reasons to work on wrist:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>quick access for quick snippit of visual info<\/li>\n<li>fashionable on wrist (bracelet)<\/li>\n<li>quick access for interaction (a little better than phone clip?)<\/li>\n<li>need wrist access (e.g. pulse monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Reasons not to work on wrist:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>small screen<\/li>\n<li>very limited input possible<\/li>\n<li>anything you need to look at for a while (wrist gets tired of being held in that position).<\/li>\n<li>needs hardening (so it won&#8217;t break when you bang it on something)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So what applications have the wrist-top as the clear winner interface? 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