Desk terminal
A terminal earns its space on a desk or it does not belong there. This one is specified around reach and reading distance first: a dial your hand finds without looking, and a screen angled to a seated eye line.
Hardware · HW·09
Desk terminal
A screen and a dial on the desk, so the assistant is something you reach for rather than something you launch.
A desk terminal with a tilted display and a rotary control, specified on latency from touch to response and on legibility at arm’s length rather than on screen size.
- Entry
- HW·09
- Division
- Hardware
- Status
- In development
- In the line
- Desk terminals · Rotary control · Speaker and microphone
- Judged on
- Latency from touch to response, legibility at arm’s length
- Not judged on
- Screen size alone
How it is run
The brief starts with the distance it is read from and the thing your hand lands on. A terminal that has to be woken, unlocked and navigated is a phone in a worse position, so the dial is specified before the software and the screen angle is fixed to the seated eye line.
- Brief — Screen size, viewing angle and what the dial actually controls are set first.
- Specification — Display class, dial detent feel and the speaker enclosure are written into the order, not left to the factory.
- Quality control — Units are sampled on dial feel, on legibility at arm’s length, and on whether the terminal still answers with the network down.
HW·09 · Desk terminal
Drawing sheet · not to scale
Concept · runs with HOB AI
Reach for it, do not launch it.
Every line is drawn around the same assistant. It is asked for out loud, it resolves what it can on the device in front of you, and it answers with the thing rather than a conversation about the thing.
HOB AI · on device
- Ask
- Say it to the desk
- Understand
- The room’s state is held on the terminal
- Act
- The dial moves what you asked for
- Ask — Speak to the terminal, or turn the dial. Both reach the same place.
- Understand — The state of the room is held on the terminal, so it still answers with the network down.
- Act — The dial moves the thing you named, and the screen shows it moving.
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How HW·09 is specified, ordered and checked.
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HW·09
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Brief
Screen size, viewing angle and what the dial actually controls are set first.
- Screen size
- Set before sourcing
- Viewing angle
- Fixed to a seated eye line
- The dial
- What it controls is decided first
Specification
Display class, dial detent feel and the speaker enclosure are written into the order, not left to the factory.
- Display class
- Written into the order
- Detent feel
- Specified, not left to the factory
- Speaker enclosure
- Written into the order
Quality control
Units are sampled on dial feel, on legibility at arm’s length, and on whether the terminal still answers with the network down.
- Dial feel
- Sampled per batch
- Legibility
- Checked at arm’s length
- Offline
- Must still answer with the network down
In development
- Entry
- HW·09
- Division
- Hardware
- Status
- In development
- In the line
- Desk terminals · Rotary control · Speaker and microphone
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