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Alternative Interfaces for Mobile Wireless Technologies
Project Goal: Continue work on V2 standards for universal remote consoles and promote industry adoption of alternative interfaces to mobile wireless devices.
Image: The PDA above shows a basic Universal Remote Console for controlling a music device.
Project Team
- Ed Price, Project Director
- Jeremy Johnson
- Jeff Wilson
- Thad Starner
Problem
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Persons with disabilities can have difficulty using the interfaces to consumer electronics an appliances
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All users could potentially benefit from adaptable user interfaces that address the problem of increasing complexity in consumer electronics.
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Broad industry support is needed to solve this problem
Approach
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Participate in the INCITS V2 committee to develop a standard for Universal Remote Consoles (URC) (ANSI/INCITS 389-2005 through 393-2005 and ISO/IEC DIS 24752). The URC standard allows electronic devices to offer a User Interface Socket to which alternative user interfaces can connect for remote control.
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Participate in the Universal Remote Console Consortium to promote, implement and support URC.
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Develop tools to help manufacturers implement URC concept in products
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Develop prototypes/reference designs to test concepts and user interfaces
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Disseminate tools and findings to industry
RERC Comments on CMAS Cited by FCC
ASSETS 2008
