[info] [croquet-user] Wow. Network monitoring in 3D...

[Eugen Leitl]

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From: Florent THIERY <fthiery at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:12:21 +0200
To: croquet-user at duke.edu, Howard Stearns <hstearns at wisc.edu>
Subject: Re: [croquet-user] Wow. Network monitoring in 3D...
Reply-To: croquet-user at duke.edu, Florent THIERY <fthiery at gmail.com>


     Cute, and I feel, quite meaningful. Have you seen the first-person
     shooter
     interfaces for Unix, where kill -9 is made much more graphic?

   No, just tested the first-person-shooter-like file browsing interface,
   was quite funny; as well as the galaxy's style filesystem browsing.
   But they are not really practical...

     It's good to make information obvious without having to "decode"
     it. Croquet
     conferencing makes it obvious who is present and who is doing what

   Well, i guess this will be even more obvious when avatars will be
   automatically generated following your true apparence... If you have
   an audience of genuine rabbits, who's who ? :)

     One thing that isn't clear to me about the Netcosm video: how do
     you interact
     with the information presented this way?

   I'm not sure you do interact.

     Do you have to be a video game ace to
     click on a flying packet in order to inspect it?

   I guess so :) It's like packetgarden ([1]http://packetgarden.com):
   fun/artistic, but not very practical for now...

       I feel it is important not
     just to present information, but to be able to work with it as
     well.

   I guess the software should downscale to human capabilities: only
   present the most meaningful information (ex: only represent a tcp
   flow, not every tcp packet), slow things down... Lots of concept work
   to do !

References

   1. http://packetgarden.com/

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