Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Fully functioning

It's early but all functionality is in Wiida. Well almost. I implemented the buttons for testing purposes and the program runs with full capabilities using them.

Control of Winamp, Window's Media Player, and Windows Picture and Fax viewer all run smoothly. Task list restricted to basically iPod controls (Play, Pause, ff, rewnd, skip, Vol, Zoom, Rnd, Repeat). I;'m pretty sure I'll implement tv control but probly not for the thesis since it doesn't add anything and theirs no way to demo it.

The Mode is controled 2 ways. A charades version to select a specific mode and a mode control switch to define either 1 mode or two. If running video the mode is considered to be singular.

Work that needs to be done:
1. Get the gesture breakpoints and settings
This will take a while but so thought should solve it. I think I'll try doing it the opposite way I've been doing it. Start with all gestures and remove gestures that don't work. While testing I've been playing around with the simple math (ie try using x, try using x *10, try using x * x) for the values. Show some interesting things about some of the gestures. For example Stop is quick and sharp whereas go is a lot more flowing.

2. Get some "randomly selected users" round for drinks and work out the best ways to implement the mode and discuss how it would be represented on the Wiimote. (got the lights to represent mode)


On Document Side of things:
Sat down for couple hour last night and went through acm and itee for papers again. Rippied a bunch but need to go through them. In Regard to Modality. The Wiidia is a "multidevice" system not a multimodal system.


Stephen pretty sure I'll forget but do I include the building experience into the Thesis? Certain programs where invaluable while making this. Not just media play application but programs like Spy++.

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