Hello Mark, good to see you here again. This is something I found while doing research. It sounds like it is right up LGPT alley! I pulled this off the Embedded Processor Forum site. Which is hosting the
conference for Embedded Computing Technology in San Jose this week.
mdronline.com@18759949tlqjfp/events/epf99/index.html
I wonder if Log Point is attending this conference?
The Invisible Computer: Embedded Processors and the Consumer Market
Donald A. Norman, the Nielsen Norman Group
A massive change is under way in the information technology industry, fueled, in part, by a consumer revolt against the complexity and general unreliability of today's personal computers. Enter
information appliances: small, specialized devices that are powerful, easy to master, and accommodating to users.
Embedded processors are one of the essential infrastructure technologies for making this revolution possible, but they alone aren't sufficient. Embedded processors make it possible to develop
products that are small, simple, and appropriate to everyday activities. But to make them acceptable to the average person, the technology has to become invisible.
Embedded processors provide the promise of a revolution in consumer goods, but only if the companies that make products adopt a
human-centered design philosophy. This talk addresses the changes we might expect to see in this new world of information appliances and the ways they might arrive. |
