[Web4lib] Text~Touch(sm): Haptic Highlighting/Rating of Text

[Gerry Mckiernan]

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Not Only Is The World Not Black&White, It Is Not Just A Carousel of Color

[ http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2008/06/writecolorsm-multicoloring-for.html] 

Humans Are MultiModal Creatures With MultiMonet:sts-l at ala.orgdal Minds 

Here Within I Propose The Development and Implementation of Technology That Would Allow Authors/Readers to Highlight Text With Varying Degree of Texture.

TEXTURE
Wikipedia: Texture refers to the properties held and sensations caused by the external surface of objects received through the sense of touch.

Using Other/Related Haptic Technology Readers Would be Able To Feel That The Range of Textures Layered Over The Text Within A Corpus.
 
Such Texture Could Be Used to Denote Another Dimension Of The Text OR Denote Relative Importance.

[ http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2008/06/writecolorsm-multicoloring-for.html ]

THINK That This Is FarFetched? Not Really.

A Decade Ago I Began to Explore Haptic Interaction in Web and non-Web Databases: The Magic Touch(sm).

Your Thoughts On Text~Touch(sm)? Please Post As A Comment On The Posting In The Scholarship 2.0 Blog at 

[ http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2008/06/texttouchsm-haptic-highlightingrating.html ]

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The Web Is Not Only Semantic - It's Haptic!

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu 

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