Vancouver Lisp Users Group meeting for April
Saturday, April 8, 2006
And now for something completely different...
Many of us use Lisp night and day; however, few of us have Lisp
embedded in our clothing or monitoring our day-to-day actions. The
April
lispvan meeting will discuss a project (actually, a series of
projects) that attempts to do exactly that!
Here's the "official" meeting notice:
Topic: Wearing Lisp
Presenter: Norman Jaffe
Date: Thursday, April 20, 2006
Time: 7pm - 10pm (or whenever)
Venue:
Think!, 4512 West 10th Ave., Vancouver (see
map)
Summary: Norm will discuss "wearable computers" and "wearable
systems". A series of subtopics to the presentation will be:
- Wearable systems versus wearable computers. "Doom on your waist" as a poor model for what we want to do. Why not PAN? Human-human communication via computer versus human-computer interaction. Out-of-band presentation of emotional state.
- A brief history of my journey to wearable systems. "Bodymaps". "Felt Histories". "Whisper I". "Whisper II". "Exhale". Stateless and stateful systems. Extremely interactive systems.
- Small hardware platforms for wearable systems. Tiny Java systems. Microcontrollers and PDAs. Very small Linux systems. Unusual interface devices and techniques needed.
- Where I hope to go. Creating a physically tiny Lisp run-time environment using off-the-shelf hardware and software. Adapting biophysical interfaces to the hardware. Dedicated Lisp-based hardware. "Wearing Lisp".
