What a great introduction to Google Glass design and aims in the form of a focussed look at Thad Starner, who shepherded precursors to Glass for several decades!
I’ve followed Professor Starner in media and academic publication all the way from when he was a student at MIT. The Glass headset is way cool, but what is even cooler is the years of thinking about wearable, ubiquitous, context-aware intelligent computing and communication that’s led up to Glass. From balancing design constraints, to principles of privacy by design, to evolution of social etiquette, health IT has much to learn from the past, present, and future of Glass!
Fantastic article about Thad Starner, "inventor" of > Magnifying glass – Atlanta Magazine
— Charles Webster, MD ()
"Privacy, power and heat, networking on- and off-body, and interface [decision about any of these affect rest] It’s always a balancing act"
— Charles Webster, MD ()
"A lot of time, technology gets in your way because it’s not close enough to you" Starner
— Charles Webster, MD ()
"is an object of intense curiosity, but also, depending on your perspective, one of desire, fear, disdain, or even hope"
— Charles Webster, MD ()
" has been declared both the greatest invention of the year & doomed 2 failure" from piece about Starner
— Charles Webster, MD ()
"Can we make a computer where it’s so facile to interact with that you’ll react through it? That you act with it? … "
— Charles Webster, MD ()
"Can you actually make the wearable computer an augmentation of your intellect?" Thad Starner inventor
— Charles Webster, MD ()
"no one knows if will be a commercial success, a groundbreaking technology, or a permanent punch line"
— Charles Webster, MD ()
"consider carefully the ubiquitous and mobile computing question of our time: What is a computer and what is human?"
— Charles Webster, MD ()
"principles of privacy, the first one is 'notice,' … Are you giving notice to people around you of what you’re doing?"
— Charles Webster, MD ()
"is trying to solve a smaller problem—creating smooth “microinteractions” w/your computer—leaving door open for other things"
— Charles Webster, MD ()
"The attempt from the ground up to make a device to be used in social context … has to be there from the beginning"
— Charles Webster, MD ()
"6 principles of privacy-by-design … notice, choice & consent, proximity & locality, anonymity & pseudonymity, security, access & recourse"
— Charles Webster, MD ()
can track motion of a magnet on the tongue; may aid stroke, brain injury, Parkinson’s, ALS, cerebral palsy patients & the deaf
— Charles Webster, MD ()
"wearable computers [like ] will … simply disappear—because we will cease to notice them" Great article!
— Charles Webster, MD ()
Again: What a great introduction to Google Glass design and aims in the form of a focussed look at Thad Starner, who shepherded precursors to Glass for several decades!
That's great! The ALS Assoc purchased a pair to try with ppl w/ ALS. This is exciting news for those w/ this disease
— Alisa Brownlee, ATP ()
. Cool! Been playing around w/programming a head-gesture based user interface for myself: where are you based?
— Charles Webster, MD ()
+1 MT : Fantastic article about "inventor" of > Magnifying glass – Atlanta Magazine
— Jeris JC Miller ()