- From: Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:45:53 +0100
- To: public-wsc-wg@w3.org
I'm not sure if we're agreeing or disagreeing (normally the latter with me of course:-), anyway, if I understood it correctly, I liked Tim's posting about trying out the idea of analog guages, but in such a way that different providers can have some sort of guage plug-in. I can imagine running my browser with TCD guage code, maybe something from W3C/IETF, my bank etc. all of whom could swing the pointer according to some weighting that I (or my pal who knows how all this nonsense works) have set. Second thing - I recall from years ago someone telling me about a process-control GUI for a water treatment plant. Apparently it was just a colour-circle (like you get in ppt) where the current state of the system was a dot that wandered about driven by lots of complicate code no-one understood. Apparently the users got it though. No idea if that was a dumb or clever idea, but I still remember it;-) I'm off the campus n/w now, so don't have much access but a quick look threw up [1], (you can see the abstract). Should we be looking down that road? Cheers, Stephen. [1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V31-4N6FV52-1&_user=10&_coverDate=05%2F31%2F2007&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=2b0de7ce628d8bf00fef6780f097b857
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