On Saturday, I was working on my Spanish homework. I was having difficulty understanding what the Textbook was saying, so I decided to go onto my aunts Tablet PC, and try and see if I could figure out what the book was saying on babelfish, or someother website.
I opened up Internet Explorer, and tried to write in the web address. (Keep in mind I did not have a keyboard hooked up, and was doing this all with the pen.) I typed in the web address. The Tablet PC just didn't want to work with me. I consider that I have pretty nice handwritting, but the computer kept changing what I was writting into something else.
When I would mess up, it would take forever to erase it. I would have to switch from where you would write in your own handwritting, to the keyboard, and if the computer hadn't already gotten rid of the box all together, I would be able to erase. Much too long, and complicated.
I was already about to give up, and I had just barely gotten to babelfish! Then, I ran into another problem, which, now that I think back to it probably could have been solved pretty easily. The problem was that i was writting in Spanish. Everytime I would ask the computer to put what I had written onto babelfish, it would change the sentence to English. This completly changed the meaning.
So, really, I was most frustrated at writting the web address, and erasing mistakes. I don't have a solution for how the writting problem could be fixed, but I think my problem with erasing could be easily taken care of. There need to be a button added for erasing. This could be added to the left or right of the line designated for writting on.
A simple solution.
Posted by EMH at September 20, 2004 08:37 PM | TrackBack