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From: rwl@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Ray Lubinsky)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: Human Factors: Paper-Like Interface
Message-ID: <2883@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 18 Dec 88 18:36:58 GMT
References: <2690003@hpdsla.HP.COM> <2442@ficc.uu.net>
Organization: U.Va. CS in Charlottesville VA
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In article <2442@ficc.uu.net>, karl@ficc.uu.net (karl lehenbauer #) writes:
> 
> An obvious answer is to draw a typewriter keyboard on your LCD display
> and use its touch sensitivity to determine what "keys" you type.

Please, no!  Have you every used a membrane keyboard (a la Atari 400 long ago
in a home computer market far away)?  Yuck!  Absolutely no tacile feedback --
drives a touch typist crazy.

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

Now we're talking, if you can include some kind of force-feedback within the
glove.  Then you can have a virtual keyboard that feels like whatever kind of
keyboard you're comfortable with; with the helment, I guess you could make the
keyboard *look* like whatever you wanted too.  If I were feeling nostalgic,
perhaps I'd make it look like my Dad's old c. 1940 Olivetti manual
typewriter....

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