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I've often wondered if enabling the capture and transmission of this type of knowledge would be one of the killer applications for ubiquitous-ish wearable compu
by nooneelse 17y ago
I've often wondered if enabling the capture and transmission of this type of knowledge would be one of the killer applications for ubiquitous-ish wearable computers (or to put it more fancifully, one of the advantages of the Borg).
Someone who is good at something but isn't good at explaining how they do it could wear the rig and the task could be recorded a few times through from their perspective (they could say how they think of the task's steps or whatever if they felt like it, but it wouldn't be needed). Other people, better able to describe things, could annotate the replays, break them into steps, explain motivations, put in branches for various cases, etc. A kind of first-person wikihow.
That seems to be along the line of translating the non-verbal into video and text formats, making the non-textual wisdom more like text so we hyperlexics can sift it our way.
Various trials using wearable computers to aid inspection and maintenance tasks have been done, but I guess we are still waiting on the tech and interfaces (or maybe more the social acceptance or right marketing) to catch up to the idea.