6th April Technical Stuff

edit: removed web tags
1. Gesture Set

1. speed -fast/slow/none - Speed of the motion
1. Motion - lift/drop, sway/stagger, push/pull - Movement on Y, X and Z Planes (Lift,Sway, Push == vector [1,1,1]
2. angle - 0...360> - degree of rotation(0 - 360)
1. rotation - pitch/antipitch, roll/antiroll, - movement around X and Z planes
   
3. orientation - up/down/north/south/east/west - orientation with up being button-side, north being IR port-side
4. gravity face -orientation - side furtherest away from center of earth (I.E. "up')
5. direction -orientation - direction the IR side faces
   

The gesture syntax would therefore by
gravity face - direction - speed motion - angle rotation

Example

1. Sitting at rest pointing forward
   
1. up - north - none - 0
   
2. Pulling in a fishing line
1. up - north - none - 90 Pitch
3. Swiping a credit card
1. east - north - fast pull - 0
   

The orientation has the same setup as the
motion, but the different names imply movement. Not sure if similar names would be appropriate. (Test?)

The Task List
This list was generated through lookiong at the current applications, such as winamp, nero, media player, and a few of the media centers (similar method to the MCE reviews)
Seek, Previous, Play, Pause, Stop, Next, Volume, Mute, Repeat, Random, Full Screen, Channel Up, Channel Down, Zoom, File Manager, Snaphot.

This list after look at the task similarities reduces to

1. Seek / File Manager
   
2. Previous/ Channel Down
3. Play & Pause / File Manager
4. Stop
5. Next/Channel Up
6. Volume/Zoom
7. Mute
   
8. Repeat
9. Random
10. Full Screen
11. Snap-shot
    

The table at the bottom of this summaries their their functions depending on the actions. A review of the function is shows here

A – Audio Player

V – Video Player

P – Picture Viewer

D – DVD player

T – Television

	Similar Effect	Different Effect	No Effect	Multiple Mode Running
Seek	A V D	P	T	None
Previous/Next	A V P D			P & Other : T *
Play & Pause	A V P D			P & Other
Stop	A V P	D T		P & Other
Volume	A V D T	P		P & Other
Mute	A V D T		P	None
Repeat	A V P		D T	P & Other: A
Random	A V P		D T	P & Other: A V
Full Screen	A V P D T			P & Other
Snap-shot	V D T	P	A	None

*Picture in Picture channel selection clash

Get ready for it,

Seek

Continuous, Show as a horizontal scroll bar. If combined with a file manager it can act as a play list control (Nero)

Application	Effect
Audio	Searches through the current track selection
Video	Searches through the current track selection
Picture	Opens File Manager
DVD	Searches through the current track selection
TV	No Effect

Previous/Next

Discrete, Represented as a Left arrow

Application	Effect
Audio	Moves selection to the previously/next played track, or returns to the start
Video	Moves selection to the previously/next played track, or returns to the start
Picture	Moves to the previous/next Picture
DVD	Moves to the previous/next Chapter
TV	Changes the channel to the previous/next channel in channel list

Play & Pause

Discrete, Right triangle or vertical equals sign

Application	Effect
Audio	Begins selection playing or stops in current position, or if no track present open file manager
Video	Begins selection playing or stops in current position or if no track present open file manager
Picture	Begins a slide show or stops on current selection
DVD	Begins selection playing or stops in current position
TV	Separate Play: Begins recording TV increased recording time. Opens Video File manager Pause: pauses recording

Stop

Discrete

Application	Effect
Audio	Stops playback and moves to beginning of current track
Video	Stops playback and moves to beginning of current track
Picture	Stops playback and moves to initially selected picture
DVD	Stops DVD altogether or returns to main menu
TV	Stops recording

Volume

Continuous, Usually discrete selection available

Application	Effect
Audio	Increases/decreases the volume of play back
Video	Increases/decreases the volume of play back
Picture	Increases/decreases the level of zoom
DVD	Increases/decreases the volume of play back
TV	Increases/decreases the volume of play back

Mute

Discrete, Volume derivative

Application	Effect
Audio	Mutes sound
Video	Mutes sound
Picture	None
DVD	Mutes sound
TV	Mutes sound

Repeat

Discrete, loops playback

Application	Effect
Audio	Loops intro, track or play-list
Video	Loops play-list
Picture	Loops play-list
DVD	Nothing
TV	Nothing

Random

Discrete

Application	Effect
Audio	Randomizes next task selection or play-list
Video	Randomizes next task selection or play-list
Picture	Randomizes next picture selection
DVD	Nothing
TV	Nothing

Full-screen

Discrete, possible measure to choose mode selection

Application	Effect
Audio	Adds visualization or goes into full-screen and removes dock
Video	Goes into full-screen and removes dock
Picture	Goes into full-screen and removes dock
DVD	Goes into full-screen and removes dock
TV	Goes into full-screen and removes doc

Snap-shot

Discrete,

Application	Effect
Audio	Nothing
Video	Take a picture of current Screen
Picture	Opens for editing
DVD	Take a picture of current Screen
TV	Take a picture of current Screen