[x3d-public] FW: 5th? in a series on the rise and demise ControllerCentered Computing

[John Carlson]

That’s the general idea, Leonard, computers moving into the background, with voice, gestures/video making the computer active.

So if one’s wife suddenly screams, should one treat it as passive input, or activate?

I need an “OK Google” command I think.

Continuous versus discrete input, I guess.

😊

John

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From: Leonard Daly
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2019 9:45 AM
To: x3d-public at web3d.org
Subject: Re: [x3d-public] 5th? in a series on the rise and demise ControllerCentered Computing

John,

Not sure what you are trying to get to/at here.

On the topic of looking for a non-command passive input. Is the audio monitoring by your (real) phone for "OK Google" an example of non-command passive input? The command is "OK Google", but there is a lot of "listening" that happens waiting for the command. It seems like there is continual input processing and very little makes it past the "OK Google" filter, which generates a command (event) to the OS.

Leonard Daly




Model-View-Controller (from Smalltalk)  Discussion aka
Storage-Output-Input-Processing
 
Very boring, except for passive ambient input discussion (non-command controllers).
 
So this is stepping up a level into systems of paradigms (paradigms being view, controller, model, and processing) so around 14-15 in the hierarchy of complexity, 16 being max’ed out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_of_hierarchical_complexity#Stages_of_hierarchical_complexity
 
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Review:
       View/Output components
                       Dimension 0-2
                                                Pixel
                                                Letter
                                                Shape
                                
Review and Expand:
       Controller/Input Device components
                                Typical:
                                                Individual
                                                                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_device (too many to list here)
                                                                Physical Motion (yawl, roll, dive)
                                                                Medical Devices (is there a group?)
                                                                Presence/Location
                                                                Leap Motion
       Group
                                                                Social Forums/Chat/Voice/Video
       Video of Sports Games
       Corporation input
                                Atypical:
                                                Individual
                                                                Emotional Energy
                                                                                Fear
                                                                                Anxiety
                                                                                Love
                                                                Thinking
                                                                Therapy Robot input
                                                Group
                                                                DynamicLand
                                                                Kinect
New:
                Model/Storage components
                                Primitive Types
                                                Boolean
                                                Number
                                                Letter
                                                Pointer/Reference/Address
                                                Frequency
                                                Wavelength
                                                Temperature
                                Structured Types
                                                Unordered Map (object)
                                                Ordered Map (array, list, function, grid, uri)
                                                Graph (network, DAG, Hypergraph)
                                                Date/Time
                                                Blood Pressure
                                                Pulse
New category, but previously covered
       Processing/Generators
                                       Loop
                                                Procedural
                                                Hyper
                                                Stochastic
                                                Chaotic
                                                Quantum
Not sure where this fits
                                                Meta
 
                                                                
So controllers are moving away from typical to atypical inputs. Controller input *might* be converted into commands.  I am trying to deal with the cases where controller input is NOT converted to commands.   Can we list them?   What do we call controller input which isn’t commands?  Is there a term for it?  Ambient input?  Here’s a use of the term: https://blog.joshlewis.org/2007/03/22/passive-ambient-input/
How do we collect and analyze these inputs? Your feedback on these subjects (research papers welcome) is desired.  Jeffrey Allen suggested that computers might move into the background, nearly invisible, and things might work off of gestures.
 
How might X3D create a sensor for passive ambient input that is processed in a non-event fashion, except when some condition is met. What design might we implement for passive ambient input?   One example might be to lower the output from the stereo when I’m talking on the phone.  Constrained input might be a term for it that is more typical. How might constrained input be implemented with Sensors (no I haven’t read the standard!)
 
                                                
 


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Leonard Daly
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