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  6. <title>Video: Eyes-Free Home: The Marvin Shell</title>
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  41. <h1 class="title">Video: Eyes-Free Home: The Marvin Shell</h1>
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  46. <h2 id="sec-1">1 <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUJnDkegsV4">Video: Eyes-Free Home: The Marvin Shell</a></h2>
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  51. The Marvin shell pulls together available eyes-free applications
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  52. to provide an integrated user experience. Note that talking
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  53. applications can come from many sources, with project Eyes-Free
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  54. being but one such source. For other exciting talking
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  55. applications that use our open Text To Speech (TTS)  APIs, see
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  56. the Android Marketplace, where you  will find many useful tools
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  57. that integrate seamlessly with Marvin.
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  59. <p>
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  60. when you install the Eyes-Free Shell, you can choose to make
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  61. Marvin your default <u>home</u> screen &mdash; this means that pressing
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  62. the <u>home</u> button always brings up the Marvin shell. To return to
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  63. the default Android home screen, hold down the <u>back</u> button for
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  64. 3 seconds or more.
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  65. Here is a brief description of  the Marvin user interface.
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  71. <h3 id="sec-1.1">1.1 Single Touch Access To Useful Tools</h3>
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  76. The Marvin shell uses the <a href="./02-strokes.html">Stroke Dialer</a>
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  77. to provide single touch access to useful tools right from the
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  78. home screen. 
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  79. You can explore this interface  by moving 
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  80. your finger around the screen &mdash; as you move over the <i>buttons</i>,
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  81. Marvin speaks the associated action. Lifting up the finger
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  82. executes the current action. As an example,
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  83. the  top row of the keypad, i.e., <u>1</u>, <u>2</u>, and <u>3</u>
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  84. provide status information.
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  85. Stroking to <u>4</u> brings up your favorite <i>short-cuts</i>, and <u>6</u>
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  86. speaks your current location using  geo-location information
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  87. obtained from Google Maps. 
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  88. Pressing <u>7</u> connects to your voice-mailbox, and pressing <u>9</u>
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  89. puts the phone in <i>airplane mode</i>
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  90. &mdash; this disables all wireless connections, and helpfully shows a
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  91. large airplane on the screen to satisfy your friendly airline
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  92. crew when flying.
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  93. Finally, the applications that appear on the <i>shortcuts</i> screen
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  94. can be customized by editing  XML file 
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  96. /sdcard/eyesfree/shortcuts.xml
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  98. on your SD-Card &mdash; as is apparent, this is a <i>power-user</i> feature:-)!
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  108. <h2 id="sec-2">2 Talking Mini-Applications  For Single Touch Access</h2>
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  113. Here, we demonstrate some of the talking mini-applications that
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  114. can be accessed from the Marvin screen.
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  115. All of these mini-applications speak useful information without
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  116. the need for the user to do some form of <i>context switch</i>.
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  124. <h3 id="sec-2.1">2.1 Device State</h3>
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  129. Available from <u>1</u> on the Marvin screen, this mini-application
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  130. announces useful information such as signal strength, and
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  138. <h3 id="sec-2.2">2.2 Date And Time</h3>
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  143. Available on <u>2</u> on the Marvin screen, this mini-application provides single-touch access to current
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  152. <h3 id="sec-2.3">2.3 Battery State And Power</h3>
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  157. Pressing <u>3</u> on the Marvin screen speaks the current battery
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  158. level and announces if the phone is presently being charged.
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  166. <h3 id="sec-2.4">2.4 Knowing Your Location </h3>
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  171. Available as <u>6</u> from the Marvin home screen,
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  172. this mini-application announces your present location based on
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  173. information acquired via GPS and the cell network. It speaks your
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  174. current heading using the built-in magnetic compass, looks up the
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  175. current location on Google Maps, and announces the location in
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  182. <div id="postamble"><p class="author"> Author: T.V Raman
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  183. <a href="mailto:raman@google.com">&lt;raman@google.com&gt;</a>
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  185. <p class="date"> Date: 2009-03-30 Mon</p>
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