Touch And Mouse: Together Again For The First Time
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For close to thirty years, desktop computing experiences have centered around a keyboard and a mouse or trackpad as our main user input devices. Over the last decade, however, smartphones and tablets have brought a new interaction paradigm: touch. With the introduction of touch-enabled Windows 8 machines, and now with the release of the awesome touch-enabled Chromebook Pixel, touch is now becoming part of the expected desktop experience. One of the biggest challenges is building experiences that work not only on touch devices and mouse devices, but also on these devices where the user will use both input methods - sometimes simultaneously!
My feet are feeling left out from this new user input dance.
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HTML5 Rocks[^]:
For close to thirty years, desktop computing experiences have centered around a keyboard and a mouse or trackpad as our main user input devices. Over the last decade, however, smartphones and tablets have brought a new interaction paradigm: touch. With the introduction of touch-enabled Windows 8 machines, and now with the release of the awesome touch-enabled Chromebook Pixel, touch is now becoming part of the expected desktop experience. One of the biggest challenges is building experiences that work not only on touch devices and mouse devices, but also on these devices where the user will use both input methods - sometimes simultaneously!
My feet are feeling left out from this new user input dance.
Yeah - I have pedals connected to my computer at home (used for Flight Simulator mostly) that could be usefully employed instead of wasting time with the passing fad for greasing up your screens with touch.
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits. - Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most. - I vaguely remember having a good memory...
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Yeah - I have pedals connected to my computer at home (used for Flight Simulator mostly) that could be usefully employed instead of wasting time with the passing fad for greasing up your screens with touch.
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits. - Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most. - I vaguely remember having a good memory...
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HTML5 Rocks[^]:
For close to thirty years, desktop computing experiences have centered around a keyboard and a mouse or trackpad as our main user input devices. Over the last decade, however, smartphones and tablets have brought a new interaction paradigm: touch. With the introduction of touch-enabled Windows 8 machines, and now with the release of the awesome touch-enabled Chromebook Pixel, touch is now becoming part of the expected desktop experience. One of the biggest challenges is building experiences that work not only on touch devices and mouse devices, but also on these devices where the user will use both input methods - sometimes simultaneously!
My feet are feeling left out from this new user input dance.
So, explain to me how two things can be together again for the first time. ? Marc
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HTML5 Rocks[^]:
For close to thirty years, desktop computing experiences have centered around a keyboard and a mouse or trackpad as our main user input devices. Over the last decade, however, smartphones and tablets have brought a new interaction paradigm: touch. With the introduction of touch-enabled Windows 8 machines, and now with the release of the awesome touch-enabled Chromebook Pixel, touch is now becoming part of the expected desktop experience. One of the biggest challenges is building experiences that work not only on touch devices and mouse devices, but also on these devices where the user will use both input methods - sometimes simultaneously!
My feet are feeling left out from this new user input dance.
Hardly. Any 8 year old who attends a school in the develped world that isn't a complete dump sees and uses smart boards on a daily basis that support some combination of mouse, multi-touch and accurate multipen. The lucky ones get all these at once and that's what they're going to expect from everything else they ever use without a second thought, tablets and laptops are just struggling to keep up.
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