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I wouldn't be surprised if something akin to the Remembrance Agent ends up on Glass. For his PhD thesis, Brad generalized the ideas of the Remembrance Agent to

I wouldn't be surprised if something akin to the Remembrance Agent ends up on Glass. For his PhD thesis, Brad generalized the ideas of the Remembrance Agent to the broader notion of JITIR - Just-In-Time Information Retrieval. He built a web sidebar in that work, but that probably isn't the right app either. However the idea of doing a continuous search based on what you're doing would fit it well. Before it was just searching your own stuff, but now they'd hook in more generally to Google's search. Couple that with something Siri like where the speech recognition is feed as input for a proactive search. I'm still not sure this is a compelling application for a wide audience, but for several of the early everyday users of wearable computers (including myself) it had a lot of appeal.

vitovito 14y ago
I had forgotten about what ended up in his thesis. It's linked to from the Remembrance Agent site if anyone else is interested: http://www.bradleyrhodes.com/Papers/rhodes-phd-JITIR.pdf http://www.bradleyrhodes.com/Papers/rhodes-phd-JITIR.pdf (PDF) "Implicit query" is another term for it. On the desktop side, one of the most realized solutions was the Dashboard prototype: http://nat.org/dashboard/ http://nat.org/dashboard/ I've long argued that designing multi-modal interfaces is where applications need to go. We're seeing this now with desktop, web and mobile apps all running against the same APIs, but what it really means is you're more likely to be able to also design a UI that's really an audio-only interface, whispering to you continuously via a Bluetooth headset, or a wrist-mounted UI, or... etc. It also means you can design and build something useful for desktop users, and then mobile users, and then scaled even further down for wearable users. Real-time continuous Google searching as a desktop sidebar, or rendered on an iPad or iPod Touch display linked to desktop input as a second screen, would be a start.

vitovito 14y ago

I had forgotten about what ended up in his thesis. It's linked to from the Remembrance Agent site if anyone else is interested: http://www.bradleyrhodes.com/Papers/rhodes-phd-JITIR.pdf http://www.bradleyrhodes.com/Papers/rhodes-phd-JITIR.pdf (PDF) "Implicit query" is another term for it. On the desktop side, one of the most realized solutions was the Dashboard prototype: http://nat.org/dashboard/ http://nat.org/dashboard/ I've long argued that designing multi-modal interfaces is where applications need to go. We're seeing this now with desktop, web and mobile apps all running against the same APIs, but what it really means is you're more likely to be able to also design a UI that's really an audio-only interface, whispering to you continuously via a Bluetooth headset, or a wrist-mounted UI, or... etc. It also means you can design and build something useful for desktop users, and then mobile users, and then scaled even further down for wearable users. Real-time continuous Google searching as a desktop sidebar, or rendered on an iPad or iPod Touch display linked to desktop input as a second screen, would be a start.