[Sugar-devel] Zooming User Interface

[Sam Parkinson]

Totally forgot to reply all xD
On Mar 1, 2014 9:10 PM, "Sam Parkinson" <sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> On Mar 1, 2014 9:04 PM, "Christian Stroetmann" <stroetmann at ontolab.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface
>> [2] Wikipedia, Prezi en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prezi
>> [3] Wikipedia, Rehabilitation Act of 1973en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
>> 1973_Rehabilitation_Act
>> [4] Wikipedia, Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act
>> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_508_of_the_Rehabilitation_Act
>> [5] Eagle Mode eaglemode.sourceforge.net
>> [6] Eagle Mode, Project Philosoophy eaglemode.sourceforge.net/
>> philosophy.html
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