Aucbvax.2288
fa.works
utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!works
Wed Jul 15 04:36:31 1981
Touchpanels vs Tablets
>From SAUNDERS@USC-ISIB Wed Jul 15 04:35:03 1981
Joe,
There is one real distinction between BitPad et al. and
sensitive-surface touchpanels, and that is the need or absence of
a gadget (pen, e.g.) that one must find and pick up (or take a
hand position on) before pointing/drawing.  Is it your experience
that this is not important?  I get *terribly* annoyed by the pen
on our Perq (which came with a Summagraphics tablet, not the
transparent touchpanel -- I don't know why).  I think that a pen
on a cord is much worse than a mouse; what I don't know is whether
finding a mouse every time is worth having those buttons there
rather than (say) near the left hand.  Have you experimented
with fully-worked-out setups that use each of the competing
technologies to its own best advantage?  I really would like
to hear some information on this.

		Steve



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