Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!eagle!icdoc!qmc-cs!nickd From: nickd@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Nick Dunlavey) Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng Subject: Touch-screen research Message-ID: <348@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> Date: 4 Dec 87 10:52:55 GMT References: <19@gollum.Columbia.NCR.COM> <290@rd1632.Dayton.NCR.COM> Reply-To: nickd@qmc.ac.uk (Nick Dunlavey) Organization: Sch Of C+IT, Thames Polytechnic, Woolwich, London, UK Lines: 19 Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: Keywords: I know that the CEGB (for those outside the UK, this is the UK's Central Electricity Generating Board) has done some work on this in the Scientific Services Department in its North-eastern Region. A report was produced called: "A Touch-Sensitive Screen As An Interface For On-Line Control", by Sutherland, Pringle and Carlin. It documents the use of an upgraded VT103 in a power station for operator control. -- ------------- Nick Dunlavey ARPA: nickd@cs.qmc.ac.uk (gw: cs.ucl.edu) School Of Computing & IT UUCP: nickd@qmc-cs.UUCP Thames Polytechnic Tel: 01-854 2030 Ext 339 Wellington Street Woolwich Thanks to Queen Mary College for LONDON net access SE18 6PF