On Saturday, March 17, 2012 8:56:23 PM UTC, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > I remain very excited about touch interfaces. Talking to a computer > with a keyboard and mouse always felt a bit like poking at something > with a long stick through a narrow slot; touch puts you in direct > control with high bandwidth and high precision. We think of touch as > being a mismatched interface for text applications, but it seems that > we spend most of our time navigating and reading text. Perhaps even > the time we spend writing text is mostly about rearranging it. >
To be pedantic for a moment[1], I think it is important to keep it clear that when you use an interface, you're interfacing with information, not the computer. The computer is mediating the interaction, but the stuff being manipulated are abstractions of information. I agree that touch is promising for navigating, reading and high level editing but that presumes a particular type of information being manipulated. TiddlyWiki has historically (and positively) munged the boundary between narrative text and computer code and thus is probably especially fertile ground for seeing where touch leads. [1] Hah! I'm pedantic all the time! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywikidev/-/VmR3kF8ErhYJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev?hl=en.
