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Why not make every key on a keyboard touch-sensitive - and then make the keyboard act as a mouse/touchpad when you run your fingers lightly across them. When you press a key firnly, or only touch one key then the keyboard would act normally, but when you glide your fingers or "tap without deflecting" a key, then the keyboard would act as a trackpad.
y_kiwi, Dec 11 2003
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Indeed, an innovation of the keyboard/touchpad would be a great boost for personal computing.
IMHO, it might be costly to deploy the existing capacitive filtering technology used on most touchpads for the touch-sensitive keyboard. From the usability perspective, my first guess is that certain tasks we take for granted with the touchpad would be difficult to emulate - e.g. typing (the proper way with thumbs positioned towards the spacebar) and concurrently moving the pointer with your thumb to the desired location for the cursor.
I'm more in favour of turning the entire display area into a touch screen. That would really pave the way for a more fluid & accurate interaction between the user and the GUI.
been done and is for sale.. almost :) In fact it's way cooler than that as it has Minority report style gestures and the keyboard is 100% flat. I really REALLY want one. Takes a while to get used too apparantly, but people rave about it. www.fingerworks.comthere's a mouse replacement only one which would be great too
Good idea. Better than a touch-pad screen as currently marketed. People don't like to hold hands up to the screen very long. Maybe the ideas could be combined. Make a touch screen that also works as a keyboard (virtual keyboard appears as a window on request). This won't work for serious typing, but might do for common web uses.