Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pdn!reggie
From: reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: Re: Human Factors: Paper-Like Interface
Message-ID: <5316@pdn.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 89 12:13:34 GMT
References: <316@cui.UUCP> <3500002@hpindda.HP.COM>
Reply-To: reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach)
Organization: Paradyne Corporation,   Largo FL
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In article <3500002@hpindda.HP.COM> kmont@hpindda.HP.COM (Kevin Montgomery) writes:

>	What does everyone think of having a touchscreen keyboard if the
>application isn't very typing-intense?  Seems that a color, flat, horizontal,
>touch display could quite easily pop up a keyboard window for some short
>typing when necessary, then make it go away when not needed.  Surely  there's
>been discussions of the agonies of touch-typing in this group in the past-
>could someone post the issues and verdicts?
>


       Rather than a horizontal display, why not allow for angling the display
as with a drafting table.  Hunching over a flat surface can be fatiguing as
well.




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