Good overview presentation! This layout was much improved! Point Made -- Human interface is important, a great reason to take care with making slides for presentations ...
@cmeadows6959 - is this the RealPlayer freebie. I have upgraded to v15, but don't see anything about capturing audio. where do you select this feature.
@danlafleur - I have an old iPaq that has a similar interface as your Swype. I understand. I don't really like to use it. I'd rather wait until I can get back to my keyboard. Some I know got a bluetooth keyboard for thier Apple product. They liked it, but sent it back due to poor mechanical design in the keyboard. They're still looking for keyboard with good packaging. If that works for you, you might want to take a look for yourself.
@ram " You might want to take a look at Altium Designer."
I'm very familiar with Altium and Altium Designer -- actually I met the founder and CEO - Nick Martin - at ESC a couple of years ago -- he's about the same age as me -- we both love Doctor Who -- it turns out that we both used to watchit from behind the sofa's in our respective houses (me in Sheffield England, him in Tasmania)
@Ran, the on-screen-keyboad on my tablet comes with a 3rd party app called Swype. it allows me to type by "drawing" with my finger or stylus instead of pecking at the keys. The software is aware of most letter combinations and tries to guess the word. Auto correct has caused some funny emails and i usually turn it off.
@danlafleur..if you turn off the auto correction in the settings you will have much control over it. Otherwise you will have to proof read eveyting you type.But you will have to have a strong typing control..good luck.
@"When I hear HMI, my original impression was like Robotic or Prosthetics arms or legs or body parts..but concluded it as user interfacing."
Interesting question -- most folks today think of HMI (Human Machine Interface) in the context of a human communicatinc with a computer (perhaps by a touch screen like on in iPad, but also via keyboard or mouse) or with an industrial control system (which may also include knobs amnd dials and lights and switches and klaxtons and ....). But if you wanted to, you coudl take this ti include systems like Stephen Hawkings uses where th ecommputer tracks the momement of the eyes ... or how about the systems that measure electrical signals in the mucsles and are used to control artificial limbs - -or brainwave monitrs uses to conteol wheelchairs -- in the future we may have direct neural implants -- all of these fall under the "umbrella" name of HMI
@danlafleur - Sorry. I thought you were talking about problems with the sliding on the display screem on an Apple product. Now, if I understand you correctly, it sounds like you're referring more to things like Autocorrect or drawing some sort of pixel-based graphic.
@luizcosta - Try looking at the archives of the weeks in question. In particular, look at your contributions to the postings. You will probably find the answer to your question by looking at your postings.
How do yo measure posting participation? as far as i know my participation level is good. i have seen postings that have no value, such as single letters. is that what you mean?
@Clive Maxfield - You might want to take a look at Altium Designer. They have "hooked up" with a display company, gotten all they IP for interfacing to a display so that the design engineer has to do nothing more than drag and drop - Job Done. After that, start programming for your CPU, MCU or embedded core. HMI is much, much easier.
@Ran, it's a learning thing. thinking of the words and drawing lines between letters is new. I still don't trust it to write what I mean without a lot of time proofreading the text first.
@"it was difficaul to get the GUIs working because of a slow response to keypress."
Thsi is a classic HMI consideration -- the HMI must NOT be frustrating to use -- and in th ecase of modern HMIs, if you want to use fancy 3D graphics, make sore you have the processing power to support them without impacting the respoinsiveness of the system
Hi Max, When I hear HMI, my original impression was like Robotic or Prosthetics arms or legs or body parts..but concluded it as user interfacing. Is it fair to say that? Thanks.
I recently bought a tablet. I'm still trying to get the hang of Swype for the on-screen-keyborad. any thoughts from others... does it work well after a while?
@"Monty Python routine: Wuthering Heights performed by semaphores"
YES -- I remember that -- a lot of their stuff is dated, but some of it is timeless -- My favorites ar ethe Dead Parrot, the Cheese Shop, and the Four Yorkshiremen (I'm originally from Yorkshire county in England)
Some one said "The Internet is an example of too much intormation" Don't you think that the Internet is not the HMI but the info repository, from which the user must use filters so there is no information clutter?
@luizcosta - Try looking at the archives of the weeks in question. In particular, look at your contributions to the postings. You will probably find the answer to your question by looking at your postings.
@"WINDOWS has an onscreen keyboard that is very effective"
I am SO SLOW typing on the iPad onscreen keyboard -- I thought it was totally useless -- then I saw my wife using the iPad I bought her fo rChristmas (I'm a giid husband :-) I couldn; tbelieve how fast she was typing ...
I know that even when I go running, to change the music on my MP3 player (touch screen), I need to pull my glove off for the panel to read. Something about capacitance?
Hey, Alex, can you tell me why the grades are different from week to week? As a matter of fact, the first week I got 49. Then I got a couple of 50s and 40 last week. I don't think I mssed any class.
Of course each HMI must be tailored to the user and application and environment -- there's no point in using a touchscreen if it's so cold that the operator's fingers stick to it :-)
Now I'm thinking of that Christmas Story film where the boy gets his tongue stuck to a mental pole...
@jjrochow.ra.rockwell.com - Be aware that all the comments you see posted here are archived and available to you at a later time for you to browse at your leisure, so no need to rush anything here. Go ahead to your appointment and log in later to catch up.
@"I personally don't like voice control." I knwo what you mean -- I don; tthink it will be th eonly form of control -- I think it will be used to augment ofther forms of control It woudl be nice to think that even if you slipped and fell over on the way to the control panel you coul dscream "Turn the $%^^% reactr off" or "Stop the self destruct sequence" :-)
I am ex-military and have flown aircraft. Much HMI in those arenas are based on how quickly decisions can be made and information processed in such a way to maintain "situational awareness". Don't want to get to the situation of "too many buttons" or gauges. Think of the old "steam-gauge" panel of the original 747 flight engineer's station, or the IP of the B-52 Stratofortress.
I personally don't like voice control. High back ground noise, disturbing office mates and a dog that gets upset when she doesn't know why you're talking to the cieling.
In one of my experieces developing a software engineering approach for my company, I established in the standards that the programmers hired for a project, had to work on the user manual and graphical user interfaces before knowing much about the software solution and absolutely no code writen. The idea was the the programmers familiar with what they write are the worth candidates to write user communication systems such as user manuals and user interfaces. Much of the users interface engineering was defined in advance by the software engineering team in contact with the customers while defining the set of requirement specification documents.
There are rules that we have to follow in developing text and displays in educational intuitions because of people with disabilities and there are some fonts that they don't respond to.I teach mechatronics and they are always reminding me of those requirements.
@cmeadows6959: Yeah, but depending on their level, you may get some rediculously crazy requests that you find out later they don't even need and may never use
I don't know what specifically they are referring to with detergent, but typically no. Acids and bases are definitely used for ph balance and also to bond with compounds in the water and filter them out
@cmeadows6959: Yes, I use LabVIEW on two different fiber lines here. We have three touch screens running LabVIEW on Windows CE for HMI and a regular Windows computer for primary control and data logging.
Amazing weather here in Northern Alberta too. It feels like we didn't have a winter. I can't really complain about not feeling -40 this year. Same about many feet of snow that didn't happen.
Looks like the earth has shift a little bit from it axis due to the earthquake in Japan last year.. We are having amazingly beautiful warm weather here..:)
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