[bookport] Re: New Bookport ideas
- From: "Neal Ewers" <neal.ewers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 13:24:53 -0500
I think you will have a really hard time making the keys smaller. The
testing we have done at Trace for various phone projects, A T M machines
and other products I can't mention has lead us to believe that you start
leaving out vast segments of the older population plus a number of other
people when you make the keys too small to use. As it is now, the keys
are just about the dimensions of a standard telephone, plus or minus.
Well, and what is a standard telephone these days anyway, so perhaps
that is not a good example. But I would caution against making them any
smaller than they are now.
Neal
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Subject: [bookport] Re: New Bookport ideas
What about keeping the keys the same size, but just moving them a touch
closer together? My preference would be for much smaller keys much
closer
together, but I agree this would be a problem to people without the
finger
dexterity or precision.
Bruce
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On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Russ & Valerie wrote:
> I agree that smaller keys will be a challenge for some.
>
> My aunt is using a BP, and she can just manage the buttons as she is a
> bit
> frail and her fingers not always steady.
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, 23 April, 2006 11 21
> Subject: [bookport] Re: New Bookport ideas
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>> A BP with smaller keys might be okay, but I do wonder about the
>> elderly or multi-handicapped user's ability to manipulate something
>> that would enable a design of the size you mention here--a
>> cigarette pack. While I don't know this to have been the case when
>> the original device was designed, the present keypad certainly looks
>> as if this section of the potential market was considered. I know
>> from experience and observation that many elderly users just can't
>> cope very well with buttons the size most of us find usable. Since
>> NLS, from what I gather, isn't planning to produce a truly portable
>> player when they move to digital Talking Books, I can imagine APH
>> wanting to fill this gap, provided they can work with NLS to get the
>> necessary permissions and work out the technology, so these folks
>> would absolutely have to be taken into account in any design
>> considerations.
>>
>> I think that on balance, I also like the idea of moving to SD cards
>> from CompactFlash, particularly if industry forecasts indicate that
>> even higher-capacity SD cards may be forthcoming in the future and
>> if NLS decides to move in that direction. Right now, 4 gig is the
>> largest available size and if APH succeeds in removing all card size
>> limitations, I can see that some folks may very well want to buy
>> even larger-capacity cards. My sole concern about using SD cards is
>> their relative fragility when compared to CompactFlash--I just see
>> them as being too easy to damage or lose. CompactFlash is certainly
>> going to continue to be around for a long, long time, given the
>> number of devices that are dependent on them, but using SD would
>> certainly aid in designing a smaller player.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Tanner"
>> <david-tanner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 8:20 PM
>> Subject: [bookport] Re: New Bookport ideas
>>
>>
>> It's size is about half to two thirds an inch thick, about 2 inches
>> wide, and about 5 inches high. I am guessing it would need to be a
>> bit larger than this unit in order to have decent size keys, but it
>> would be nice if the BP could be a bit smaller; say the size of a
>> cigarette pack.
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