Whenever I skim my RSS reader (I use Netnewswire, in case you are wondering), I make vigorous use of its “starring” feature and then forget about most of the things that I marked as “starred”. Then, every couple of months I feel entirely overwhelmed by all those “starred” articles in my feed reader and I start vigorously pruning them, but there are always a few links that are stuck because I feel I should post about them here. And then, I move on and never post them.
To remedy this unfortunate situation and to help me clean out my “starred” folder, I’ll start putting those links where I always intended to put them, namely on this weblog.
Here are the five leftover links from my starred folder from 2021:
- My iPad should have a gaze-controlled cursor and An eyebrow raise means left click – Matt Webb on gaze-based interaction, something I spent some time researching a few years back. Turns out the Mac already features head-tracking-based controls as part of its accessibility features.
- How Android 12 lets you control your phone with facial gestures – more on facial gesture interaction, this time as part of Android’s accessibility features.
- Amazon Glow review: fun but unfinished – The Amazon Glow was a very weird device with a projection-based interface, that made it to a limited public release before being cancelled. Probably one of the weirder devices released by Amazon and this review is all the more interesting for the device’s cancellation since.
- SAGE and a glimpse of group computing from before the PC – I’m a sucker for the history of human computer interaction and cybernetics, and Matt Webb provides a fascinating what-if look at SAGE, a system that even predates Douglas Engelbart’s Mother of all Demos and was perhaps the first incarnation of interactive computing.
Hopefully I’ll get around to posting the 2022 batch of leftover links soonish.