Re: a request for help

Good morning, Kendall,

Thanks for your consideration to my comments.

> > (6) on 2.4 Monitoring News Events (Personal Information Management)
> >
> >  + to change [[[ to record every television show about that news story
> > automaticaly using the Electronic Program Guides (EPGs)]]]
> >     into [[[ to record every television show that could feature the news
> > story using Electronic Programme Guides (EPGs) and make an abridged
version
> > by extracting the very spots featuring it, using more detailed RDF
> > description of the programme]]]


> > + (and even) to make "a particular news story" a concrete expression
like
> > "Ichiro"
>
> Do you mean the baseball player Ichiro?

Yes. But Matsui is preferred?

> I don't really understand your suggested text; what's the point of the
> modal form ("*could feature the news story")?

Well, ... if the user is intrested in the baseball player Ichiro, the
recorder should
record every sports news featuring baseball.
 (making it to those featuring the team Ichiro belongs would be better, but
I don't know the team name ^_^;)

EPGs may not describe wheter Ichiro is featured or not, 'cause they are
broadcast BEFORE the game.
So it would be safer to record all the sports news once, and check the
description (meta data)
boradcast with the programme to see if Ichiro is really featurede in the
programme or not.

> > (7) on 2.5 Avoiding Traffic Jams(Transportation)
> >
> > It would be  more natural to suppose a car navigation system to do the
work
> > described in the use case, instead of the cellular phone.
>
> Well, yeah, sorta-kinda. But the earlier version of this UC which did
> just that was deemed to be too blue-sky by some. Or at least that was
> the impression I got. But now we learned that Acura is doing something
> a bit like this in its new version of the RL lux sedan. I may well
> change the UC after this draft, but I'm gonna hold off for now till
> there's more information.

I don't have a car navigation system, but car navigation systems these days
have function to communicate
through the internet. So it is no blue-sky, I think.
# Is it only in Japan?

Best regards,
Yoshio Fukushige

Received on Tuesday, 25 May 2004 09:43:00 UTC