Tablet PCs

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Sat Jun 14 18:37:06 UTC 2003


This was done nicely and with collaboration when Hiroshi Ishii (now 
at MIT Media Lab) was at NTT.

Cheers,

Alan

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At 9:20 AM -0700 6/14/03, Steve Dekorte wrote:
>On Friday, June 13, 2003, at 05:30 PM, Tim Rowledge wrote:
>>Sean Charles <bibbers at onetel.net.uk> wrote:
>>>I couldn't agree more! Personally I can't understand why touch screens
>>>aren't de rigeur.
>>A touchscreen with a typical monitor would be a dreadful ergonomic
>>situation; lifting your hand ~8-12" on a regular basis woudl be a
>>serious strain over a working day. A monitor 'set into' a desk might be
>>better but then the neck angle for viewing it would be bad.
>
>How about a drafting table where the entire table is a touch/pen screen?
>
>Cheers,
>Steve
>OSX freeware and shareware: http://www.dekorte.com/downloads.html


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