Interesting! Effectively a sensor (or network of sensors) can act as the input side of a user agent for a specific environment in which they are placed. Sensors which might detect some physical characteristic/state of human activity (such as touch, temperature, retinal scan, motion, etc) could have implications for accessibility. mark On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Jeanne Spellman <jeanne@w3.org> wrote: > Unless I am misunderstanding, a sensor network would be more of an > assistive technology to me, but I'll look into it more.... > > Thanks for being so diligent in watching what other groups are doing and > checking their applicability to us. I really appreciate it. > jeanne > > > Simon Harper wrote: > >> Hi there, >> so I see that the w3c have created a sensor network activity... >> The mission of the Semantic Sensor Network Incubator Group, part of the >> Incubator Activity, is to begin the formal process of producing ontologies >> that define the capabilities of sensors and sensor networks, and to develop >> semantic annotations of a key language used by services based sensor >> networks. >> >> >> >> Which go me to thinking - is a sensor with a 'hard' interface (buttons and >> lights) a user agent? And is the hardware / software controlling such a >> network a user agent? >> >> >> Cheers >> Si. >> >> ======================= >> >> Simon Harper >> University of Manchester (UK) >> >> Human Centred Web Lab: http://hcw.cs.manchester.ac.uk >> >> My Site: http://hcw.cs.manchester.ac.uk/people/harper/ >> My Diary (Web): >> http://hcw.cs.manchester.ac.uk/people/harper/phpicalendar/week.php >> >> My Diary (Subscribe): >> http://hcw.cs.manchester.ac.uk/diaries/harper/SimonHarper.ics >> >> >> >> >> >> > >Received on Wednesday, 11 March 2009 15:22:56 GMT
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