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Saturday, March 20, 2004

Siemens SX1 With Virtual Keyboard. JOSH RUBIN -- Siemens has shown a prototype solution for improving text entry on the SX1. When activated, a QWERTY keyboard is drawn by laser in front of the phone. Type as you would on a normal keyboard and the device figures out where your fingers are and what letters... [Gizmodo]
5:27:39 PM

User Expectations in a World of Smart Devices. Interesting article by Mike Kuniavsky who wrote the book "Observing the User Experience" that is floating around our lab. "What kinds of communication between objects are appropriate, acceptable, or desired? I want my sandals to tell my fridge if I've walked off last night's pizza so that I know whether to have a salad or a sandwich for lunch. However, it may not be desirable for them to report my whereabouts to every poster I pass on the street. Thus, designing for systems of objects will be very different than merely designing for object interoperability."
8:45:35 AM

Vocera Communications Badge. JOEL JOHNSON -- It's not that I'm in a Star Trek mood today--it's that everyone else has been for the last year, apparently. Case in point: the Vocera communications badge, which at the press of a button can voice dial other badge-wearers via WiFi. Even better, as in the hospital... [Gizmodo]
8:28:47 AM