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From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
Subject: Re: Touchscreens
Summary: Go in for a smog check
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Date: 18 Jun 91 00:24:30 GMT
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>>> Are there any papers written dealing with the use of touchscreens as an
>>> alternate input device in environments which don not have enough desk 
>>> space for a keyboard or a mouse? 

Don't know about papers, but touchscreens have appeared in garages 
(for diagnostic computers).  It's a rude environment where, I suppose,
mechanics waving their greasy fingers at the screen are preferable to
trying to make a keyboard survivable.

Joe
"The pallid pimp of the dead-line/The enervate of the pen" --Rob't Service