Various posters said:
>>>> One crazy idea I had which someone might think about implementing is a >>>> piece of software which plays sounds relating to the activity of your >>>> Freenet node. >>> Have you been smoking crack again Ian? :) >> Hey dude, I can feel my internet connection - like - a thousand rivers >> running through the planet - like - right through the core of my being >> man. > Hmmm.. how about a graphical plugin.. we can call it "LSD FreeNet".. Joking aside, I've had some brief contact with Rob Freitas of the (historic!) Nanomedicine book series <http://nanomedicine.com/>, regarding the future of HCI when we have medical nanobots floating around inside us. In other words, I've been doing some thinking about communication channels far beyond a keyboard and monitor. I'm totally convinced that they are worth developing, even with today's primitive "technology". Certianly we won't, and shouldn't, do away with the overwhelming advantages of visual feedback; but non-CRT HCI still has a lot to offer. Audio "background monitoring" information is an excellent and relatively easy way to start, IMO. I'm more interested in audio feedback during programming sessions than auralizations of log files, so I haven't followed the research much lately. FWIW, <http://www.icad.org/> looks to be a good place to get started if someone is interested in pursuing the idea further. Rick Dietz's pointer to WebMelody is also worth a peek -- even a quick listen to the .mp3 and .mid samples should be very informative. A quick grep on Google gave me interesting-looking stuff, such as: http://www.cs.umu.se/kurser/TDBC12/HT99/sellen.html http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~stephen/bibliography.shtml http://www.idiom.com/~digi/papers/gi-92-paper/gi-92-paper.html ..and many others, though I'd still go to www.icad.org first. NASA and the US Air Force have been looking into this stuff for decades now, mostly with pilots in mind. They probably also have some good material archived away somewhere. So yah, I really do take it seriously. On the other hand... right now I'm listening to "Music for a Large Ensemble" -- an outstanding 1970's neoclassical piece that IMO would be a pretty good model for both event sounds and musical progression patterns; so maybe I'm just hypnotized. :-) --Will (who does not speak for his employers; and imbibles nothing stronger than green tea with mint, an occasional cola, and prescribed Ritalin) willdye at freedom.net _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
