From ernst.kruijff@archit.uni-weimar.de Thu Jul 16 13:29:40 1998 Received: from burdell.cc.gatech.edu (root@burdell.cc.gatech.edu [130.207.3.207]) by lennon.cc.gatech.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA09600 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 11:43:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (sJnHNdvn1gniwgDGW/Vhk93aP+U5KyHu@[128.95.73.60]) by burdell.cc.gatech.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA15909 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 11:43:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from tigger.scc.uni-weimar.de (root@tigger.scc.uni-weimar.de [141.54.1.3]) by wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id IAA18334 for <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu>; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 08:43:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from klee6 (klee6.architektur.uni-weimar.de [141.54.118.171]) by tigger.scc.uni-weimar.de (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA25816 for <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu>; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 17:43:09 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <35AE201F.59FB@archit.uni-weimar.de> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 17:45:35 +0200 From: Ernst Kruijff Organization: InfAR X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold [de] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu Subject: right weight and size References: <5F68209F7E4BD111A5F500805FFE35B90579784B@red-msg-54.dns.microsoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: RO - the right weight and size is crucial - I think this sentence pretty much sums up what men think about, huh :-) -sorry- OK, without kidding around, what IS known about size and weight? I mean, the ligter it is, the better, I suppose.... I ask this question because I am thinking about developing a (simple) device, ergonomically formed, which fits inside the palm of ones hand, with a couple of buttons - that is, you don't hold the device, it fits you like a glove or something. On the device, I would like to put a couple of buttons and maybe put an Inside tracker in it - you use it for menu functions than, putting your hand in space and attach (in the VE) a menu or something to that... or for specific snap functions, whatsoever. This of course in combination with the stylus we want to use again. BUT I am probably not the first who tried this ... -Ernst -- ...... Dipl.-Drs. Ernst Kruijff Research assistant ...... Ernst.Kruijff@archit.uni-weimar.de ...... Bauhaus-University Weimar Computer Science in Architecture and Urban Planning Geschwister-Scholl-Strasse 7 99421 Weimar, Germany ...... Private: Schlossgasse 17/19 99423 Weimar, Germany