IDEOLOGIA

Imagine an authentication scheme without textual passwords. Welcome to IDEOLOGIA, a system that allows the user to log on different websites with spatial based gestures.

Based on the previous works KAOS and ILLITERATE.

User instructions:

In order to be directed to the NSA website (www.nsa.gov) the user needs to invoke the following sequence of gestures:

1. NORTH

2. NORTH

3. NORTHEAST

After the sequence is "typed" IDEOLOGIA will open a browser with the URL www.nsa.gov. No button or any usual user interface has to be pressed, just drag&drop gestures.

See a demo on youtube: here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPa4Hz9vv9Q

Illiterate

Imagine a computer environment without buttons o textboxes. Welcome to ILLITERATE.

Based on the previous work Kaos, ILLITERATE is a learning tool for disabled people.

Every word is presented to the user with a twist: a visual representation of the 'kaos level' of the word presented.

While the user advances on the typing work, the initial order is restored.

You can watch a ILLITERATE demo (you tube video) here

KAOS, the roadmap

My name is Joan and I am a lawyer [*].

mmm.. so, how can a lawyer write JavaFX applications?

Well, thats a wrong question, man. Who invented XML? A lawyer. Who was the best number theorist mathematician? Fermat, a french lawyer. Who.... well, that's enough for today.

Let's talk about Kaos, a Java FX application. Java FX is an interesting beast, a DSL with very interisting skills. One is closures. If you know Smalltalk o Newspeak you know waht I mean.

Kaos is a litte prototype or proof of concept. Also is a engine that will be used in posterior applications: Illiterate and IDEOLOGIA.

Playing Kaos is very easy. Your goal is to restore the initial order. In order to do so, you can drag&drop the scrambled pieces of the initial image.

Playing Kaos you will feel like Sisyphus a greek king punished in Tartarus by being cursed to roll a huge boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and to repeat this throughout eternity.

You can watch a demo of a KAOS session here (youTube video).

The media of Kaos does not violates any copyright:

Here is the copyright information of all the images:

girl.png

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author: Nekirom

computer.jpg licenced as CreativeCommons (attribution, share alike)

original media: http://www.liewcf.com/blog/archives/2008/10/blogging-workspace-of-liewcf-2008/

beija.jpg

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Flicker tag: The Clowns of Beija-Flor

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Author: Eduardo Amorim

MadDemoisellejpg

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cristal.jpg

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luanco.jpg

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Author: David Basanta

[*] Well, a studend lawyer is more accurate.

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