University usability project for Plasma Active?

Aaron J. Seigo aseigo at kde.org
Tue Dec 4 08:20:09 UTC 2012


On Monday, December 3, 2012 15:45:31 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> One example that may be big enough for a scientific project are security
> features. I think one reason why we have not continued working on them
> yet and private Activities are still disabled at this point is that we
> were not able to come up with a solution we were really happy with yet
> (and we are quite perfectionistic ;) ).
> That doesn't mean security is not important, and having good security
> and privacy features is still something that would set PA apart from the
> big players in the tablet market.
> And security/privacy research is likely to get funded especially in
> Germany / the EU.
> 
> General guidelines for converting desktop (mouse & keyboard optimized)
> applications to touch-friendly ones is also something that may be big
> enough and the differences between keyboard/mouse and touch would be
> scientifically interesting.

both of these sound very interesting and very, very useful.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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