Sunday 22 April 2007

virtual reality technologies

virtual reality technologies

Text input technologies

The input technologies

Digital pen















Logitech io2 digital pen
The main feature of digital pen is it creates the hand written text into the editable text .It posses the information enablement technology.as this is very miniature in size it can be fit into the pocket as a normal pen and can be very easily carried.

http://www.expansys.com/p.aspx?i=131313&partner=froogle

Tablet pc

A tablet pc is an advanced or an improvment in the methods of input. It is a notebook shaped computer and the input to it is given by digital pen or a touch screen type rather than using a keyboard or a mouse. The tablet pc consists of handwriting recognition that recognizes the hand written input through the digital pen.






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Smart/automated house technologies

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Groupware Technologies

Groupware technologies are the technologies which allow to a group of people to respond or to involve in a similar task. Based on their type of communication these groupware technologies are classified into three types.

1) Direct interpersonal communication
2) ideas generation and decision making
3) sharing computer objects

The direct interpersonal communication supports conversations when the people are at distance using a medium. Many applications are being developed like emails,video conferencing,video phones,computer conferencing,instant mesaging,chat rooms,collaborative virtual environments,media spaces.
email is an electronic mail which is sent via a medium as a means of communication called as internet. Through this technology one can send messages in groups to others where ever they may be provided an internet technology is existed.

video conferencing is a groupware technology where a group of people communicates them selfs looking each other and feeling to be in the same place virtually even though they are not really.This technology saves time of all the way comming to attend a meeting.this can be done sitting in his office or home.The main disadvantage in this system is the persons should be online in a specific time.


imc.rcc.edu/videoconfgeneral.htm

Ideas generation and decision making technologies are mainly used for taking a decision and generating the ideas therefore it mainly used in the meetings which involve large rooms for face to face meeting with large screens for the collaboration of them selves.Interactive white boards and touch table are some of the technologies.
sharing computer objects is sharing the personal computerss and sharing the window systems among a group for interchanging the ideas.

shared devices












Disadvantages of these groupware technologies is imlementation is time taking than single technologies.Groupware also has some issues like transmission type etc. Transmission types are of two types, synchronous and asynchronous.Groupware devices made communication of users in a way that there are minimal disruptions. The products have made users interact in a clear way as they would be interacting in virtual environments it makes feel as if the people are in a group together.In future the groupware devices may be developed more for efficient transmission of data.

www.networktechinc.com/.../avmtx-cat5-app.html

Friday 20 April 2007

mobile interactive devises

Following the growth of the modernization there are more and more mobile interactive devices comming up online every day and these devices have their own way impact on the users. Some of the interactive devices are mobiles, laptops, ipods, mp3 players..etc

mobiles












These mobile devices brought a rapid change in the society users find many ways using the mobile. mobiles now a days not only got the feature of making the calls but also they integrated with the computer and the internet and emerged as personal computers,digital music players, cameras and more.
Following the growth of the modernization there are more and more mobile interactive devices comming up online every day and these devices have their own way impact on the users. Some of the interactive devices are mobiles, laptops, ipods, mp3 players..etc mobiles These mobile devices brought a rapid change in the society users find many ways using the mobile. mobiles now a days not only got the feature of making the calls but also they integrated with the computer and the internet and emerged as personal computers,digital music players, cameras and more.


http://www.dvinci.com/production/cdromsWebsites/mobileHandheld.htmlom/production/cdromsWebsites/mobileHandheld.html

laptops


laptops are one of the mobile interactive devices. laptops gone through tremendous changes from the initial stage of their development. laptops when compared to the mobile devices even though the present mobiles got the internet facility with them but the laptops have their own advantages like user friendlyness and great memory storage features.
The present day computers are of the note book size so that they can be carried along with ease.








http://www.time.com/time/techtime/200308/guide_laptops_low.htmlom/time/techtime/200308/guide_laptops_low.html

ipods


This device is mainly refreshing device and due to its less wait and compatibility it fits into the pocket and is very easy to carry it. Due to its storage capacity one can store a wide range of songs .Besides the features and facilities of the ipods there are some adverse effects on the society . using ipod we have a mojor public safety crisis at hand. while the people are tuning their ipod they are walking into speeding buses and moving automobiles.




news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=204142007


Mp3 player


mp3 player is the most recent in the evolution of the music formats that helped their users enjoy their tunes. For music fans this device not only allow them to listen their favourite music from FM radio but it also records directly from it. This device is different in its own way of opposing the carrying of the cd player and a cd case with it which propelled for their vast growth.