[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/Control1 poster.rst

[Tuomas J. Lukka]

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+++ manuscripts/Control1/poster.rst     Mon May  5 08:00:52 2003
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 Abstract
 ========
 
-New user interfaces could benefit from customized controllers,
-but producing customized controllers is generally
-expensive and time-consuming or requires electronic and
+Producing customized controllers 
+for new user interfaces 
+is generally
+expensive and time-consuming and requires electronics and
 machine shop skills
 not usually found in computer science or psychology departments.
-
+Because of this, most user interfaces are still operated
+with the mouse and keyboard, even if the interfaces
+could benefit from customized controllers.
 
 We show how novel controllers can be built easily
 with minimal mechanical and electronic skills,
@@ -77,7 +80,11 @@
   - steering wheels ($?, 1+1 (gas and break often same axis, different 
direction))
   - spaceball
   - dataglove
-  - monkey bones
+
+  - Monkey 1 = humanoid limbs ($9000, N)
+  - "Monkey bones 2": ($22,000, N)
+
+..  http://www.didi.com/www/areas/products/monkey2/MK11/index.html
 
 Related work
 ============
@@ -88,12 +95,6 @@
 
 Graph: axes: price, DOF
 
-- Monkey 1 = humanoid limbs
-
-- "Monkey bones 2": would be great for us, but costs a lot
-  $22,000 for the flexible thing
-  http://www.didi.com/www/areas/products/monkey2/MK11/index.html
-
 A ref
 www.awb.tu-berlin.de/Service/Mitarbeiter/goebel/ 
2002-WWDU_Goebel_MedicalDevices.pdf - Similar pages
 
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 Connecting an optomechanical mouse to LEGO bricks
 =================================================
 
+By far the most difficult part of 
 
 An example custom controller for a particular user interface
 ============================================================
 
 As an example of 
+
+This is work in progress, and we are already experimenting with 
+more advanced controllers for this application.
+... will be reported later.
 
 Another example: combining two degrees of freedom
 =================================================