On 26/03/2011, at 2:43 AM, [email protected] wrote: > it seems like it will take a whole new paradigm, not just a simulated > typewriter keyboard, to make a touchscreen more efficient for writing or > coding than a physical keyboard
Yes, you could be right there - perhaps multi-touch and (infinitely better) voice. I think they will also do amazing things with multi-touch and simulated keyboards in the future. I imagine a wedge-shaped computer with a very large glass multi-touch surface / display. That said, the proposed machines could have an integrated keyboard, something like a MacBook Air with the screen pushed back until it was almost flat. > i also feel it's more ergonomic to have the display at nose height and the > hands at waist height; i don't know how we're going to get around that -- > grow eyes in our chests? cross-breed with swans? I'm no ergonomic expert but I think of the many people who've worked as technical drawers on a slanted desk, looking down, for many years. And what about reading a book at a desk, we don't usually lift it up to eye-level. As long as you can rest your elbows on the multi-touch screen, and even your hands, and they get appropriately ignored, then I think it may be very similar to the technical drawing set-up. I wonder if that was ergonomically good or bad. Cheers, Ashley. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
