[Sigia-l] BumpTop 3D Desktop

[David Malouf]

Jonas Lowgren (http://webzone.k3.mah.se/k3jolo/) is a professor of IxD
at Malmo in Sweden.
There is a link from the above referenced page to his article on pliability.
He uses the term (maybe incorrectly, maybe not) to describe an
aesthetic quality of interaction.

I.e. "Google maps is more pliable than Mapquest in how you navigate N/S/E/W."

I think Bumptop 's desktop is more pliable than the MacOS/Windows
incarnations for similar reasons. There is a better and more direct
tightness and reaction from the users action to the systems
interaction. I like the paper's use of "physics". I think adding
physics in this way does increase pliability.

His reaction to BumTop on the IxDA list can be found here:
http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Bumptop-p9245664.html

Ziya, what do you think of Sugar for the the $100 laptop as another
gateway to activity system? Not your standard WIMP, no?

-- dave





On 3/1/07, Ziya Oz <listera at earthlink.net> wrote:
> David Malouf:
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> > For me it speaks to Jonas Lowgren's thoughts on "Pliability"
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> "Pliability"? Is that the right usage of that term in this context?
> Incidentally, who's Jonas Lowgren?
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