US Navy to ditch touch screen ship controls



Surely it would make more sense to invest in an intensive training programme and perhaps some updates to the interfaces than undo all the technology changes they made to replace the manual controls in the first place?
 
Surely it would make more sense to invest in an intensive training programme and perhaps some updates to the interfaces than undo all the technology changes they made to replace the manual controls in the first place?
It does also say shipbuilders have little guidance on how they should work, so there's no continunity on systems on different ships. Aside from that touchscreen controls aren't always great anyway. You lose the tactility you get from physical controls, the only feedback you have is visual.

Saying that, making a system that works well will have better results than training people to use systems that don't. They'd be better off putting some R&D budget into coming up with their own user interface and insisting all their manufacturers use that.
 
It does also say shipbuilders have little guidance on how they should work, so there's no continunity on systems on different ships. Aside from that touchscreen controls aren't always great anyway. You lose the tactility you get from physical controls, the only feedback you have is visual.

Saying that, making a system that works well will have better results than training people to use systems that don't. They'd be better off putting some R&D budget into coming up with their own user interface and insisting all their manufacturers use that.

It's a git big ship though, it's hardly the same as your car.
 
It's a git big ship though, it's hardly the same as your car.
Nah I mean more like if you're turning a dial you can feel it in your hand, then when it's as far as it'll go it'll stop. Press a button and you feel it move or click. The response of what you're pressing and how that feels, rather than the response of the car or ship.

Plus if they're all eating burgers or whatever their greasy fingers are probably gunking up the screens.
 
Nah I mean more like if you're turning a dial you can feel it in your hand, then when it's as far as it'll go it'll stop. Press a button and you feel it move or click. The response of what you're pressing and how that feels, rather than the response of the car or ship.

Plus if they're all eating burgers or whatever their greasy fingers are probably gunking up the screens.
I did think they might be slipping at the controls if the ship suddenly hot a big wave and lurched a bit.
 

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