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WorkS Digest   V1 #18
>From DUFFEY@MIT-AI Thu Sep 24 18:30:54 1981

WorkS Digest               Thu, 24 Sep 1981        Volume 1 : Issue 18

Today's Topics:
                    Input Devices - Touchpanels
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Date:  22 September 1981 19:40 edt
From:  SSteinberg.SoftArts at MIT-Multics
Sender:  COMSAT.SoftArts at MIT-Multics
Subject:  TSD's

Xerox uses them to implement a mouse on a workstation.  ArqMaq
put them on the arms of a chair and did gesture recognition so
they could control sound volume (circular motion), page viewing
(diagonal lines for forward and back), and so on.  Gesture
recognition doesn't need hi-res.

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