Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!ucsd!news.arc.nasa.gov!skipper!shafer From: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) Newsgroups: comp.human-factors Subject: Re: Touchscreens Message-ID: Date: 17 Jun 91 15:50:10 GMT References: <8435@awdprime.UUCP> <6460@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> <1991Jun13.235714.17297@cs.UAlberta.CA> Sender: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Dryden, Edwards AFB, CA Lines: 18 In-reply-to: cdshaw@cs.UAlberta.CA's message of 13 Jun 91 23:57:14 GMT In article <1991Jun13.235714.17297@cs.UAlberta.CA> cdshaw@cs.UAlberta.CA (Chris Shaw) writes: >In article rsw@cs.brown.EDU (Bob Weiner) writes: >>Mount the screen in a desk at a slight upward angle. >This means that you need a low-profile screen. A deep CRT won't make it, >because you can't sit at your desk with your legs stretched out. It also means that bifocal wearers are in trouble. They'll end up cocking their heads up to peer through the bottoms of their glasses and have incredible neck pain or they'll have to lean over the keyboard to look at the screen. -- Mary Shafer shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov ames!skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer NASA Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA Of course I don't speak for NASA "Turn to kill, not to engage." CDR Willie Driscoll