Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!karl
From: karl@ficc.uu.net (karl lehenbauer #)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: Human Factors: Paper-Like Interface
Message-ID: <2442@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 13 Dec 88 22:10:42 GMT
References: <2690003@hpdsla.HP.COM> <88Dec10.134912est.10521@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu>
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In article <88Dec10.134912est.10521@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu>, bradb@ai.toronto.edu (Brad Brown) writes:
> RE IBM's announcement of a "paper-like" interface:

> Q:  How many people would really want an interface like this?  I would
> love to draw on paper for things like drawings and equations, and it
> would probably be very nice for menu selections if the menus would 
> change as you touched them.  I don't really think, however, that a 
> stylus would be better for text input -- in my case, I type *much*
> faster than I write and my writing is not very good.  My typing is
> so much better than my writing ...

An obvious answer is to draw a typewriter keyboard on your LCD display
and use its touch sensitivity to determine what "keys" you type.

This approach could work with the VIVED helmet/data glove as well.

I would like to see an LCD/touchscreen setup the size of an office
whiteboard -- totally interfaced to our development systems, of course, 
multiwindowed with all the character recognition capabilities discussed, 
both to turn entered data into a nice high-content-proportional-to-number-
of-bits form (ASCII text, rather than a bitmap or something), plus it would 
clean up my penmanship :-)
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