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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