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| As powerful computers shrink to the pocket,
belt and wrist the established computing paradigm become
less practical. New user interfaces (UIs) are required to
provide an effective and useable interface to the user, and
at the system level what made sense on the desktop isn't
necessarily good on portable architectures. The Itsy Pocket
Computer has been developed at the Compaq Western Research
Lab and Systems Research Centre to facilitate research into
the issues developing small devices. The goal of the Itsy
project is to learn about issues relating to the development
of small devices; user interface issues, power management,
networking, and the development of applications for small
devices. Linux was chosen as the OS because of the rapid
start to development it afforded and the need for a flexible
extensible software environment. This talk shall discuss
what Itsy is and will become, the motivations for developing
the Itsy and the completed and current research and
development that is taking the Itsy team towards their
goals. |
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