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Re:US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls... by amiga-workbench on Monday August 12, 2019 @07:20AM (#20674381)
Also in theory controls for any system can be transferred to any console on the ship, I can think of one episode where Seven transferred helm, tactical and ops down to an engineering console.
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Re:US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls... by mannykannot on Monday August 12, 2019 @10:16AM (#20675591)
That was part of the problem on the USS McCain: there were so many different modes of control that the crew lost track of the state of the system.
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Re:US Navy will replace touchscreen with mechanical controls... by amiga-workbench on Monday August 12, 2019 @02:03PM (#20678118)
I'd be really interested to see how the UI handled signposting for those handed-off functions, because I don't think the idea is inherently unwieldy, it just needs a good clear implementation.
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