Dynabook Usability

Jack Johnson fragment at nas.com
Sun Aug 24 17:25:53 UTC 2003


Alan Kay wrote:

>>>  count for all ages. My favorite paper medium (until we can do a real
>>>  Dynabook) is the Strathmore Sketch Book, which folds to 5.5" * 8.5"
>>>  and opens to provide a writing and drawing surface that is 11" * 8.5"
>>>  (in landscape) and for which my measurements and scans of the stuff I
>>>  put in there would be adequately handled with about 1M pixels (that
>>>  calculation again) and antialiasing. We could make one of these today
>>>  with two of the smaller 8" diagonal SVGA displays that are now
>>>  available pretty inexpensively. It would have a bit of a line/gap
>>>  running down the center, but so does my paper sketchbook.

If built, would you be tempted to handle the gap as if there should be 
pixels there to retain size/alignment when dragging/drawing across the 
gap, or would you handle it as if the gap did not exist and just suffer 
the visual incongruity?

-Jack



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