[AccessD] ...the gui of the future?

Recently I did an app for a safety assessment engineer, whose job it is to go into factories and look at stamping machines, presses, robots, etc. and measure them in various ways that are intended to minimize if not eliminate the risk to their operators. They have a thing called a light curtain, which is a bank of senders here and a bank of receivers there, so if you pass your hand through the beam the machine quits as instantly as possible, thereby perhaps saving said worker's arm.

Having endured dozens of friends (and worse, clients) touch my screen, I am sensitive about this subject. Friends at least I can berate, but clients I must endure, then Windex the screen when I get home. 

A light curtain might prove useful with this interface: you never actually touch it, but rather penetrate the light curtain with varying degrees of attack and decay, never touching the screen itself.

Arthur

----- Original Message ----
From: "Heenan, Lambert" <Lambert.Heenan at aig.com>
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 1:43:21 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] ...the gui of the future?

That could work. Similar to the tear-off visors that formula one drivers
use. 

It just depends on the actual touch sensitive technology being used on the
screen. Pressure sensitive, ok, capacitance change sensitive, maybe not.

Lambert

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Andy Lacey
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 1:26 PM
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Good thought Lambert.

On reflection what's needed is a sheet of clear film that you cover the
screen with. When it gets grubby you pull it off and lay another down. Think
I'll patent it. I'll call it 'cling film' I think.

-- Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of 
> Heenan, Lambert
> Sent: 25 August 2006 18:04
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] ...the gui of the future?
> 
> 
> 
> I saw this video last week, and like most of the folks on the
> list I was impressed. But one thing bothers me, with all the 
> multi-contact gesturing over the screen it's going to be a 
> pretty grubby screen after a short while. Don't think so? 
> Have you looked closely at your keyboard lately?
> 
> Lambert
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Andy Lacey
> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 12:55 PM
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> Subject: Re: [AccessD] ...the gui of the future?
> 
> 
> Fabulous. I'm just so impressed at guys like this who can
> think, as I think you say in your language, "outside the 
> box". You look at this and think: yep, there's the future.
> 
> -- Andy Lacey
> http://www.minstersystems.co.uk
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bryan 
> > Carbonnell
> > Sent: 25 August 2006 14:49
> > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> > Subject: Re: [AccessD] ...the gui of the future?
> > 
> > 
> > On 8/25/06, William Hindman <wdhindman at dejpolsystems.com> wrote:
> > > http://youtube.com/watch?v=PLhMVNdplJc
> > >
> > > ...thought some of you might find this as fascinating as I do :)
> > 
> > That is just too cool!! Gotta get me one of those :)
> > 
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