Touchscreen monitor as input device?

[Nitro]

Just throwing this out there, to see what you all think.

The cost it prohibitive for me to try it our myself, what with Christmas here, But could a touchscreen monitor someday take the place of our X-keys, or keyboards?

I imagine one of you fine programmers could make key overlays, that allow us then to just touch the monitor for whatever. My questions would be, how responsive are they? I know Windows 7 has allowed for there use in there basic system, but how well does it really work?

Thought it might be a good topic for discussion, toss some ideas around.

Our Friend Fursphere would have to make yet another Monitor mount though If he went this route.

Stephen

As a person who spent several years in MS labs working on touch screens I can tell you this is a very bad idea ergonomically. Reach out and touch your screen enough and your shoulders will be in great pain by the end of the day..

[Oatboat]

And the fingerprints!

[Bot]

As a person who spent several years in MS labs working on touch screens I can tell you this is a very bad idea ergonomically. Reach out and touch your screen enough and your shoulders will be in great pain by the end of the day..

i dont think he meant to have it standing vertically in front but rather horizontally on the desk where your xkeys keyboard would be. with a program showing on it that resembled an xkeys with customizable key graphics and such. thats what i got out of the question. i dont think anyone would want to reach out to their screen for hours on end

but i also dont think anyone would wanna shell out for a touchscreen just to replace their extra keyboard. unless of course they were an artist or something who already had another use for it.

[thinus]

i dont think he meant to have it standing vertically in front but rather horizontally on the desk where your xkeys keyboard would be. with a program showing on it that resembled an xkeys with customizable key graphics and such. thats what i got out of the question. i dont think anyone would want to reach out to their screen for hours on end

but i also dont think anyone would wanna shell out for a touchscreen just to replace their extra keyboard. unless of course they were an artist or something who already had another use for it.

The big selling point would be images instead of keys.

So imagine a square screen that sits on your desk almost horizontal with 4 big graphical buttons on it to heal your 4 slaves. If you press a modifier the images change.

You can also have a smaller sidebar with lesser used (out of combat) abilities.

I am thinking something about the size of 4x iPhones with configuration of images and regions displayed. You will already be able to do this with an iPhone if I am not mistaken. You will need to write an iPhone app to do this but you already have networking and the touch screen.

[offive]

As a person who spent several years in MS labs working on touch screens I can tell you this is a very bad idea ergonomically. Reach out and touch your screen enough and your shoulders will be in great pain by the end of the day..

Think of the workout potential! Touch screens for input, exercise cycle for power generation! All of us would be in 5 times the shape of solo boxers!

More on topic, I think a PC version of Porject Natal would be fun to play with, just make sure you only need a few keys mapped on your team. My guess is that Natal will be Xbox only .