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{JCFA} B. G. Baumgart

~Specific Simple Items for Immediate Action:~

{JUFA}
\1. Loose  cables and  power utility  strips should  be untangled  and
installed in a normal permanent manner. On/off switchs and fuse boxes
should be provided and accurately labeled.

\2. The Cohu control box should be mounted someplace other than on the
floor and its cover should be secured. The Cohu control box should be
installed  in  a  permanent  secured  fashion  in  a  place  easily
accessible by  a  person seated  at  one of the III display terminals.

\3. Two  white  phosphor monitors  should  be permanently  installed
(bolted down) at eye  level of a person  seated at each III  computer
terminal. The monitors should be connected  to the television cameras
and  to  power outlets  in  a  permanent not  a  makeshift  fashion -
particular attention  should  be  given  to  making  good
electrical  connections when  installing  the BNC  connectors to  the
coaxial cables.

\4. The Cohu Color Wheel should be fixed (or taken out) at present it
is most likely to jam under  the blue  filter or rotate continuously.

\5. The  television lights  switch should be  secured in a  normal and
accessible place - television lights  should be provided for the  arm
end of the table. Switchs should be provided at each end of the table
for turning the lights on and off (like in a hallway).

\6. The Cohu cables  should be secured in such a fashion that the Cohu
camera can be panned from viewing  one end of the table to the  other
without snagging or streching the cables.


~General Items:~

\1. Safety.
The  hand/eye area  should be kept  safe for  human occupancy.  There
should  not be any  loose cables on  the floor,  exposed high voltage
(III's and videos without backs) or arm red zones.

\2. Parallax Vision.
Parallax vision requires either two cameras or  a camera that can be
translated  -  parallax   vision  is  the  best  ways  to  get  depth
information. One camera on a pan/tilt head is inadequate  for general
parallax  vision however  some work  can be  done if  a turntable  is
provided.   The hardware situation at Stanford  for the past year has
frustrated all work on parallax vision (cart,  turntable or binocular
cameras). I  would like to work  on parallax vision in one  or all of
its forms and I would like to have a turntable, a cart and a pair  of
television cameras that work.

\3. Aethetic Working Conditions.
(3A) The hand/eye area should be kept clean, quiet and aethetic in
appearance.  Loose junk should  not be  stored under the  table. Mike
Fineo (or whoever)  should be  instructed how to  clean up the cigarette
butts and beer cans under the hand/eye table as well as
how to clean the III tables and screens.
(3B) The "Loose Box on  a Wire" idea of design  flexibility should
be curbed because all the wires get tangled and because loose control
boxes are more likely to be damaged by impact than are  control boxes which
are permanently secured in a control station.
(3C) Power should  be supplied  in some  other way  than by  loose
utility strips  on the floor. I would  suggest calling an electrician
(or someone  like that) to  installed an  adequate number  electrical
outlets under the floor.
(3D) A partition  wall should  be installed  between the  hand/eye
area and  the computer area. The proposed  wall would run parallel to
the Zonker/Kludge Bays between the "telephone pole/polka-dot bulletin
board" and  the convex room  corner where  the IMP wall  telephone is
mounted.  The wall  should be  about two  and a  half meters  high (8
feet), it need not reach the ceiling.