Features & Developments Roadmap
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Author: Mike Bennett (smoog at stressbunny dot com)
Last Update: 14/08/2003


NOTE: This roadmap is obsolete till further notice, i.e. till I figure
out the impact of the new development process.


Contents
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- On Going
- Phase 1
- Phase 2
- Phase 3
- In the Future


On Going
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These are features and developments in wayV that don't fall into 
any particular version. They'll be added when I think they'd be an 
interesting area of further research, really handy or just plain 
old cool :)

- new rules for gesture/pattern matching
- new rules for gesture scaling and gridding
- new types of actions
- various ways of giving user feedback
- other types of input devices
- development issues (see TODO)


Phase 1
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Completed


Phase 2
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- "keyboard button press", "prompt" and "wait" actions will be
  supported (MOSTLY DONE)
- meschach will be phased out and the math functions will be implemented
  internally (DONE)
- webcams will be supported for gesture input (PARTIALLY DONE)
- 1 rule will be supported for converting webcam images to gestures
- the process will begin for cross platform support, initially porting the
  backend to Windows for the mouse
- user feedback with display prompts (MOSTLY DONE)
- scaling translation of orbits to grids
- gestures will have context, i.e. different actions for the same shape
  when drawn over different applications (commonality of UI over diversity of
  applications) (BEGUN)


Phase 3
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- the frontend will be ported to Windows
- the backend webcam support will be ported to Windows
- experimental ways of interpreting gestures, i.e. try and catch more than
  highest point 
- look at taking direction into consideration for how the gestures are made,
  i.e. gesture create from left to right instead of right to left will be
  recognized as different (STARTED)
- develop techniques for catching gestures in a 3 dimensional space


In the Future
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- ways of getting rid of the mouse and keyboard completely
- ability to make gestures with various types of input devices
- maybe develop dictionaries of common gestures
- commonality of user interface over diversity of applications
- time, speed and direction might be used
- non-gui environments