Totally forgot to reply all xD <div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 1, 2014 9:10 PM, "Sam Parkinson" <<a href="mailto:sam.parkinson3@gmail.com">sam.parkinson3@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hi, In sugar we currently have 'the views'. I think the vid on our site shows that. The whole zui thing does look cool, but besides prezi I cannot see any clear use cases in edu tech. What do you have in mind? Sam <div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 1, 2014 9:04 PM, "Christian Stroetmann" <<a href="mailto:stroetmann@ontolab.com" target="_blank">stroetmann@ontolab.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Aloha Since many years now I am looking at Sugar and the underlying basic software technologies. Besides this, I am also interested in the specific field of Graphical User Interfaces (GUI). In this relation, I would like to present a concept that is an extension of the general GUI approach of the Sugar learning software with a Zooming User Interface (ZUI; [1]). One inspiring moment was that recently the U.S.American government together with companiens like Adobe, Prezi, Microsoft and Apple announced to make software donationsto schools (related reports can be find in the web easily). One specific software is Prezi ([2]) that is developed in Adobe Flash and Adobe AIR, and built on top of Django (Python web framework). Surprisingly, Prezi is not compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act ([3] and [4])but used in education (see again [2]). I looked around and found the software Eagle Mode ([5]; for a first impression see the videos on its website diretly). Said this, I simply counted 1+1, Sugar+ZUI and Sugar+Eagle. Such an UI approach has advantages and disadvantages that are discussed shortly on the website of Eagle Mode (see [6]). The point with the hardware requirements seems not to be relevant, because for example the hardware of the latest featurephones and featuretablets (simple smartphones and tablet computers) should be useable with a ZUI and are available for around 30 U.S. Dollar already. Have fun Christian Stroetmann [1] Wikipedia, ZUI <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface" target="_blank">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface</a> [2] Wikipedia, Prezi <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prezi" target="_blank">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prezi</a> [3] Wikipedia, Rehabilitation Act of <a href="http://1973en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Rehabilitation_Act" target="_blank">1973en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Rehabilitation_Act</a> [4] Wikipedia, Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_508_of_the_Rehabilitation_Act" target="_blank">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_508_of_the_Rehabilitation_Act</a> [5] Eagle Mode <a href="http://eaglemode.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">eaglemode.sourceforge.net</a> [6] Eagle Mode, Project Philosoophy <a href="http://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/philosophy.html" target="_blank">eaglemode.sourceforge.net/philosophy.html</a> _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> </blockquote></div> </blockquote></div>