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From: garye@hpdsla.HP.COM (Gary Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: Human Factors: Paper-Like Interface
Message-ID: <2690005@hpdsla.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Dec 88 19:43:41 GMT
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Organization: HP - Pacific Technology Park
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> An obvious answer is to draw a typewriter keyboard on your LCD display
> and use its touch sensitivity to determine what "keys" you type.
I don't think that would work as well.  Someone I know did an informal study on
touch-typing and found that you couldn't vary the standard keyboard size and 
feel by very much at all before typing fell apart.  I don't think the display
would have appropriate tactal feedback to make typing as efficient as on a
standard keyboard.  Maybe with practice, however.

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

> I would like to see an LCD/touchscreen setup the size of an office
> whiteboard ...
I like this too.  What about making it swivel so you could also sit down at it
like at a drafting table and lean on it?  I wonder how long you could work at
something like that (vertical whiteboard or drafting table) without tiring or
getting a sore back/neck.

> -karl lehenbauer ---------

Gary Ericson - Hewlett-Packard, Technical Systems Division
               phone: (408)746-5098  mailstop: 101N  email: gary@hpdsla9.hp.com