Comments on: Minoritea Report http://www.teamrubber.com/blog/minoritea-report/ Team Rubber talks on the Internet in a blog Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:10:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Lisa http://www.teamrubber.com/blog/minoritea-report/comment-page-1/#comment-2226 Lisa Sun, 15 Mar 2009 03:07:07 +0000 http://www.teamrubber.com/blog/?p=446#comment-2226 Oh no! I know nothing about the next generation of interfaces but I know a thing or two about tea..... always, always travel with your own tea supply. :) The US tea is totally different and takes some getting used to... and half and half is what people put in their coffee. It's not very nice in tea. Good luck! Oh no! I know nothing about the next generation of interfaces but I know a thing or two about tea….. always, always travel with your own tea supply. :) The US tea is totally different and takes some getting used to… and half and half is what people put in their coffee. It’s not very nice in tea. Good luck!

]]> By: timw http://www.teamrubber.com/blog/minoritea-report/comment-page-1/#comment-2225 timw Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:05:08 +0000 http://www.teamrubber.com/blog/?p=446#comment-2225 "moving interfaces on from 2 dimensions and point and click" I tend to stay focused on my nice simple, 76 dimensional interface when I'm working with computers. (i.e. the standard keys on my keyboard in a terminal window) To be honest, while 3d interfaces are nice (and I'm not talking about psudo-3d interfaces like Compiz), I can't help feeling that adding one extra dimension to input or output seems like a minor change. As mentioned above, I have 76 orthogonal inputs on my keyboard, plus four on my mouse (left & right buttons, vertical, horizontal, vertical scroll and horizontal scroll). note multi(dual)-touch displays/inputs like the iphone and macbooks don't have right button, vertical scroll or horizontal scroll, they have the distance between fingers (horizontal and vertical), and the number of fingers - but that's not orthogonal to the horizontal/vertical difference in finger spacings, so they effectively end up with one less input. For outputs, we have sound, colour (which can fairly easily be broken down into 3 continuous dimensions), x and y coordinates. I'm fairly happy with my six dimensional output interface, but if I wasn't then I could always use a force-feedback device to provide some tactile information in a seventh, eigth, or even ninth dimension. “moving interfaces on from 2 dimensions and point and click”

I tend to stay focused on my nice simple, 76 dimensional interface when I’m working with computers.

(i.e. the standard keys on my keyboard in a terminal window)

To be honest, while 3d interfaces are nice (and I’m not talking about psudo-3d interfaces like Compiz), I can’t help feeling that adding one extra dimension to input or output seems like a minor change.

As mentioned above, I have 76 orthogonal inputs on my keyboard, plus four on my mouse (left & right buttons, vertical, horizontal, vertical scroll and horizontal scroll).

note multi(dual)-touch displays/inputs like the iphone and macbooks don’t have right button, vertical scroll or horizontal scroll, they have the distance between fingers (horizontal and vertical), and the number of fingers – but that’s not orthogonal to the horizontal/vertical difference in finger spacings, so they effectively end up with one less input.

For outputs, we have sound, colour (which can fairly easily be broken down into 3 continuous dimensions), x and y coordinates.

I’m fairly happy with my six dimensional output interface, but if I wasn’t then I could always use a force-feedback device to provide some tactile information in a seventh, eigth, or even ninth dimension.

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