Topic(s): Engineering
Tags: text input, typing glove, mobline computing, wearable computing, MIDI glove, mouse glove
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The HandWriter is a wearable device that serves as a mobile keyboard and mouse. It is also an inexpensive Braille writer. Just plug it into any USB-enabled device and you can begin typing with one hand. The one-handed typing glove allows users to type free of a keyboard providing freedom of movement and freedom from repetitive stress injury. The one-handed device can be used with either the left or right hand. It is based on Dr. Douglas Engelbart's original chorded key set and uses a combination of finger presses to type the entire alphabet. The alphabet is as simple to learn as the Alphabet in American Sign Language.
Web site: http://figleaftechnologies.com/glove.html
Betsy Burroughs
Productivity and creativity facilitator, Betsy Burroughs, has over 25 years experience in marketing, advertising, sales, and publishing. At both her own advertising agency and marketing consultancy, her clients have included "Dwell" magazine, "Business 2.0" magazine, Ziff-Davis Magazine Networks, CNET Networks, TechRepublic, EDN, Design News, Electronic News, Electronic Business, The Home Book, Broadcasting & Cable Magazine, IDG Executive Forums, The Millennium Project, The Tech Museum of Innovation, Meritage Skin Care, and Redken Haircare.
She is a member of the World Future Society and a member of the Silicon Valley Node of the Millennium Project—a United Nations-affiliated think tank that produces the annual international State of the Future Report.
As Vice president of marketing for InfoWorld Magazine, she created the InfoWorld Futures Project and recruited an advisory board that included some of the leading futurists in the country. Also at InfoWorld, she negotiated their sponsorship of Paramount Pictures' Las Vegas Star Trek attraction. She cites as one of her greatest thrills going on the set of Deep Space Nine—twice.
Camilo Landau
Musician and engineer
Dr. Robert Stephenson
Chief Scientist Robert Stephenson is director of E-Learn at the Tech Museum in San Jose. He is an educator, eLearning architect, and consultant living in San Francisco. Stephenson is a pioneer of the open course movement: applying the principles of openness and collaborative development to create interactive learning materials. He is architect and organizer of OpenCourse.org, an NSF-supported portal platform for learning object developers, and founder and chief architect of the Harvey Project (harveyproject.org), an international collaboration to build free learning objects for physiology. He is experienced in instructional design, interface design, software development, digital hardware design, and building virtual communities of practice. Stephenson holds an A.B. in physics from Princeton, an M.S. in physics from MIT, and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from MIT. He also has Java programming certification from Sun Microsystems.
Evan Schaffer
Valerie Landau
Mobile Input Device and Systems (MIDAS) is a start-up of unconventional seasoned engineers and designers interested in making technology adapt to human needs rather than making humans conform to machines. Founder and president Valerie Landau is a designer and co-author of the soon-to-be-published book "Inventing the Future: the Quest to Boost the Collective IQ," with the inventor of the mouse Dr. Douglas Engelbart and Eileen Clegg.
She was a designer on award-winning computer games including Math Heads (won the Platinum Award in the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio and was nominated for SPA Codie Award for Best Consumer Creativity Software) and Word Heads, (Parents Choice Gold Medal Award-winner.) Her TV and film clients include CBS's "60 Minutes," Paul McCartney, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, WGBH Interactive, Mattel, and Britannica. Her work on the series Silicon Valley: Boomtown is on permanent exhibit at the Smithsonian.
Landau was awarded the Online Pioneer Award and worked with the California Virtual Campus to develop the book and online course "Developing an Effective Online Course" published by McGraw Hill Primus.
She received a master's degree from the Department of Instructional Technology, San Francisco State University, and a post-graduate Certificate of Advanced Study from the Department of Technology and Innovation from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, and is about to retire from California State University, Monterey Bay.
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