I imagine a touchscreen control, roughly the same size as a computer keyboard, but with the same dimensions ratio as the monitor, that you use to control the main monitor / PC. It would respond to various of gestures - 2 fingers, 3 fingers, swiping, tapping etc. This could combine the benefits of the controls of the touchscreen with the benefits of having the screen at a comfortable height.
A specific gesture could then make the pad display a keyboard when necessary and other controls as / when needed. Open up your media player and it displays media controls. Software developers could develop specific control interfaces for their application. Does this exist already? Has anyone ever built something similar? All the technology exists, it would be a case of pulling it all together. Sam www.pixelthread.co.uk 2009/1/3 SteveJB <stevejba...@gmail.com> > Wouldn't adding a touch sensitive surface to replace the conventional > 2 buttons and scroll wheel on a mouse be a way of adding finger > gesture sensing technology to conventional mouses? > > The technology for adding touch sensing to contoured surfaces maybe a > few years off but it would certainly be more convenient for a user to > use their index finger to move the cursor over relatively small > distances than to do the same by moving the entire physical mouse. > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36725 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
