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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.mac,alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: replacing the desktop metaphor
Keywords: desktop metaphor, graphical interfaces, computing environments
Message-ID: <3636@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 3 Jan 89 21:03:22 GMT
References: <454@blake.acs.washington.edu> <17939@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
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In article <17939@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle) writes:
}       Touch screens are an extension of this concept, but they have not
}been popular except for public-access applications, and even there, they
}do not dominate.  ...

Those who live in New York may have already noticed that Citibank's new
teller machines are touch screen based.  There are no hardware buttons
at all (for customer use), just touch zones on the graphics display.

Citicorp's market research folks say the customers love it.

The system definitely allows for flexibility.  The screen can actually
display a full typewriter keyboard so customers can send messages to the
bank. (I don't think that one's gone public, yet, but I've played with it
in-house).  New products and features are easy to add and even more
advanced stuff is in the pipe (but I've probably said too much already).

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