Estimated Feasibility of User Requirements
Other
3.1 The above analysis is somewhat cryptic but there is a wealth of supporting material in the Cybrarian/MyGuide archive.
3.2 The first major issue is how far the Board is prepared to accept the ranking as the basis for an invitation to tender. There is obviously more latitude on the Desirability scoring than the Feasibility scoring but the latter can be altered through resource allocation.
3.3 Once the Board has taken a decision, then the user requirements can be divided between those to be delivered by the MyGuide system and those to be delivered by content providers.
3.4 The key policy decision is the extent to which the Project is committed to the cross platform principle. this will affect our ability to:
- Reach our target group
- Reduce the cost and increase the choice of user interface
and it will have serious implications for the standards we lay down at the Content and Standards Forum.
It is difficult to see why there is such a strong preference for a typewriter-based user interface cabled to a massive and cumbersome piece of data processing capacity; convergence, after all, is fundamentally a matter of digital data rather than the user interface.
The key attributes of a system we require are that it should be:
- Portable
- Private
- Simple
- Always on.
These requirements apply to mobile telephones and personal digital assistants but will increasingly apply to what are currently media centres (a combination of a lap top and digital broadcasting receiver).
Even if the pilot is confined to PC user interfaces we must begin parallel work on 3g telephones and PDAs so that we can serve this market particularly when it includes social classes C2, D and E.