Hi Benjamin, I find the concept of the Firefox Pad very interesting and IMHO I believe it has potential. Let me contribute a bit because I find the idea of Mozilla involved in the "IOT wave" fascinating and inspiring. I hope that it brings something positive into discussion.
On one side, the idea reminds me of the work of Valentin Heun [1] from the MIT Media Lab, specially his OpenHybrid project [2, 3]. It turns the screen of the mobile phone into a augmented reality remote control for Internet of Things. In a nutshell, it provides a user interface to manipulate IOT [4]. I really like it. Besides, it is an open source platform. On the other side, I see an inconvenience which is not on the idea of the Firefox Pad itself but on the general context of designing smart devices and their user experience: - Smart devices (and IOT) should not (always) need a screen to interact with them. As a user I don't want to to always have to use a screen as UI to interact with everything around me. I like the comparison made by Robbins [5], fireplace versus central heating: when you want to heat the house using a fireplace, you know exactly where to start (there are usually traces of its use) and it is very straight forward on how to stop it. But in the case of the central heating, the controller/screen doesn't help at all: where to start and how to control it is always a big deal. I just really hope that whatever new technology comes out, it is somehow the best for the end-user. Cheers, Jesus @jmunox [1] http://www.valentinheun.com/human-computer-interaction/ [2] http://openhybrid.org/ [3] https://github.com/openhybrid/ [4] http://postscapes.com/reality-editor-is-the-user-interface-of-the-iots-dreams [5] Robbins, H. at al. (2015) "De-Commodifying the Device: A Materialist Design Approach for Communication With and Through Connected Objects." https://projects.hci.sbg.ac.at/fabrication2015/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2015/07/Robbins.pdf On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Benjamin Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Luna, > > On 10 February 2016 at 11:12, Luna Jernberg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Has this something to do with >> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox_OS/TCP >> > > That's the "previous tablet project" I mentioned in my original post. This > project is very different to that one, but it's been pointed out that those > devices could be re-purposed for this project. > > Ben > > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > >
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