US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls on its destroyers

Re:US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls... by azernik on Sunday August 11, 2019 @05:54PM (#20670791)

Yup - just requires the hardware designers to have some knowledge of the required UIs. My main point is that the use of touchscreens was more a case of lazy/cheap design than trend-driven design.

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Re:US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls... by atoav on Monday August 12, 2019 @12:49AM (#20672509)

And I agree. Touch screens can be beneficial under certain circumstances — but they are not amazing for anything that has to be reliable and must be operated under stressful conditions.

This is how for example the interface of the 50k$ Arri Alexa looks like (the de facto standard in cinema cameras): http://nofilmschool.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_w...

There were lower priced cameras like the Black Magic Production Camera which use only a toucscreen.

And you can guess why that Black Magic model is discontinued..

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