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By Ellen Isaacs This page last updated: March 8, 2000
As previously explained, each user has a Sound ID, which plays on their friend's devices whenever those friends receive a message from the user. Users select their Sound ID when they first log on to Hubbub. The Login section explains the full login sequence, but after the user selects a name, they are prompted to select a Sound ID, with an explanation of what that means, shown in Figure P27. When they tap OK, they are taken to the SID selection screen, shown in Figure P28. This part of the application is intended to make it easy for users to get started by choosing from among a large selections of SIDs (to minimize duplication). They may later decide to design their own SID, for which they would use an accompanying application called "Dub," being developed in tandem with Hubbub. Dub is intended to enable users to create their own SIMs as well as SIDs and then import them into Hubbub. This specification, however, only explains how a user chooses from among the sounds provided in Hubbub. Figure P28a shows the "TV shows" category of SIDs. The songs are listed in alphabetical order. To listen to a SID, the user taps on the Note button next to the SID. This plays the SID without selecting it as the user's current SID. To choose a SID, the user selects the name of the sound (Mission Impossible in the example), which changes the value next to the "My SID" label at the bottom. When the user taps the Done button their SID is updated and they return to the main Hubbub page.
The user may browse through a collection of SIDs by switching among categories, grouped by the type of music. When a user switches to another category, their SID continues to appear at the bottom of the screen and does not change unless they select another sound in that category. Figure P28b shows the user looking at a category of SIDs (80s tunes) that does not include their current SID. To switch among categories of sounds, the user pulls down the category menu, just as they would for any Palm application, as shown in Figure P29.
We are very early in the process of designing these SIDs, but a preview of the current Sound ID sounds is available. If the user wants to create their own SID, as mentioned they do so in the Dub application. We might provide one-tap access to that application via the "New..." button on the main screen. This would bring the user to Dub, and once they were done, they could go back to Hubbub to see it in their SID list under a new category called "My SIDs." However, we may not provide this level of integration and instead the user has to launch Dub in the usual way from the application screen. (Perhaps we could include a popup in Hubbub that tells the user about creating sounds in Dub.)
Playing Sound IDs
Sound IDs play prior to Sound Instant Messages, but after activity sounds. That is, when someone becomes active, the user hears the active sound, followed by the SID. But when a SIM arrives, the user hears the SID first, followed by the SIM. Since it can be overwhelming to hear the SID each time a message arrives, it does not play under the following circumstances:
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