EirePreneur James Corbett
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Monday, 2 March 2009
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I don't believe Robert Mulhall tweets, despite my gentle prodding on the internal social network. In fact, I only know of one other in the group who tweets - @irishdeafkids
Thursday, 5 February 2009
Friday, 12 December 2008
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@topgold no problem, but I'm not sure I get it. I was going to add it to my only blog too but then thought - isn't just a glorified MyBlogLog at the moment? What else can it do?
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
Monday, 17 November 2008
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Having seen how the kids at Gaelscoil.com take to an interactive touch whiteboard I have no doubt but that multi-touch will be a fundamental element of the UI going forward. Observing one 8 year old build a model house in Sketchup by pushing and pulling surfaces with his fingers, just as he might with play-doh, convinced me of this.
I used to give PC lessons a few years ago and remember vividly the trouble I had teaching one 50-year old how to use a mouse. This lady was plenty smart and used to be a secretary before she became a mother but she'd never actually seen someone using a mouse so her only reference point was a TV remote. Thus she started out by holding it in the air and waving it like a wand. In hindsight I wish that, instead of immediately correcting her, I'd thought more deeply about why she was doing what she was doing, and I might have come up with the Air Mouse, before Logitech - http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/mice/devices/3443&cl=US,EN
Most of Vizitant's customer will have similar difficulty using the regular mouse and thus we're investigating various configuration of touchscreen and joypad control. As such I've got an Asus AiGuru SV1 Skype Videophone on order and will report back later on how elderly users take to it's novel interface.
Friday, 14 November 2008
Thursday, 30 October 2008
Friday, 17 October 2008
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@Adventsparky @WillKnott that's that I'm afraid of, I'm finding it so hard to resist watching multiple episodes at one sitting and I don't want to run out of them too quickly.