Re: Interacting with a touchscreen

[voxwoman <voxwoman -at- gmail -dot- com>]

I tend to agree with Keith. "Touch" is a much better verb choice than, say,
"caress" or "fondle."
-Wendy

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Keith Hood <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:

> I suggest using the word "touch" and telling your colleague to grow up.
>
>
> --- On Mon, 12/29/08, Boudreaux, Madelyn (GE Healthcare, consultant) <
> MadelynBoudreaux -at- ge -dot- com> wrote:
>
> > From: Boudreaux, Madelyn (GE Healthcare, consultant) <
> MadelynBoudreaux -at- ge -dot- com>
> > Subject: Interacting with a touchscreen
> > To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> > Date: Monday, December 29, 2008, 6:45 PM
> > I'm trying to institute using unique and appropriate
> > verbs for
> > interacting with different input devices in documents:
> > press a key,
> > click an on-screen button, etc., so that a user never has
> > to wonder
> > which device is being referenced when she sees a given
> > verb.
> >
> > Unfortunately, we have some devices that have certain
> > buttons on a
> > touchscreen, and we can't come to a consensus of the
> > best word. (Of
> > course, this is complicated by some -- but not all --
> > buttons/keys being
> > in more than one location...)
> >
> > My first choice, "tap" can't be used because
> > it refers (somewhat
> > colloquially but in an ingrained manner) to a procedure
> > using a foot
> > switch, so it can't be used.
> >
> > "Touch," is, in the words of one person,
> > "creepy." There are no more
> > good touches, only bad ones, I guess. To be fair, I hate it
> > in this
> > usage; it's so very passive sounding, even in
> > conjunction with
> > "touchscreen."
> >
> > I had wanted to preserve "click" for onscreen
> > buttons and "press" for
> > keys on a keyboard or other external keypad (of which we
> > have both, of
> > course, the latter being something like those pads you see
> > attached to
> > hospital beds by a long curly cord), but after 30 minutes
> > of
> > brainstorming, we were right back to click and press, with
> > nothing else
> > seeming right. "Select" and "choose"
> > were both floated, but those both
> > strike me as useful only in the case of an actual choice
> > among equal
> > options, although not everyone agreed.
> >
> > Does anyone have a magic word for me?
> >
> > Please, and thank you (my other magic words for the
> > day...)!
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Madelyn Boudreaux
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