[optacon-l] Re: Operating the Optacon
- From: Mallard <mallard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 18:19:28 +0100
Hello Nick and all,
Oh, well... They make watch-size tvs thesedays, and superminiature
computers...
I think if we could have something the size of a computer mouse, more or
less,, that would be more than enough.
Try and measure one ofthe mouse buttons, and you'll see it's more or
less the same size as an Optacon display - perhaps even slightly bigger
(I have one right here, so I can compare).
Something ergonomic enough so you can rest your palm on it, and the size
of a mouse would be ideal...
Ciao,
Ollie
Il 10/11/2012 17.36, Nick Dotson ha scritto:
> I too read Braille and have in the past read books with the Optacon in
> bed... (smile) Sometimes Margie and I both did, so we had an Optacon
> chorus...
>
> Anyway, trying to think as realistically as possible, I can't imagine even
> with the best available miniaturization of electronics, and the need for a
> closely fitting display so it could be easily felt with the reading
> finger--just what kind of form factor a one-handed device would have which
> wouldn't be awkward and clumsier for prolonged reading than what we have
> today. Power and battery mass--as well as the controls for optimizing the
> image would seem most critical here. I wouldn't want them to become so
> small they were more difficult to make the sorts of minute modifications
> required for handling various types of print. Maneuverability of the camera
> is one of the best aspects of the current device, as are--at least to
> me--the ergonomics of allowing one hand to read and optimize the image, and
> the other hand to attend to the job of tracking.
>
> To make a couple of crude analogies: one could have a one handed piano, or
> guitar, but either instrument's possibilities would have become seriously
> limited by going uni-manual. On a guitar, played by a right-handed person,
> one frets chords with the left hand and picks the strings with the right.
> On a piano, most often, rhythmic cadences are played with the left hand and
> melodic ornamentation is carried out with the right hand...
>
> Nick
>
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> Catherine,
> I've read in bed too, but did you really find it comfortable???
>
> I record my notes, so I only need one hand.
>
> Try to think of all the things you could do with the other hand if the
> optacon could be used with just one hand...And think how comfortable that
> would be.
>
> Fran
>
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