Re: Interacting with a touchscreen

["Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com>]

From: "Boudreaux, Madelyn (GE Healthcare,	consultant)"
	<MadelynBoudreaux -at- ge -dot- com>
Subject: Interacting with a touchscreen

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, 

[snip]

"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."

[snip]

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Personally, I think "touch" is the logical choice. It doesn't
necessarily have to be creepy because it doesn't have to have the
connotation "touch another person in an inappropriate manner." I mean,
hey, we all touch many things every day.

BTW, I see you used the "generic she" in your first paragraph. I don't
think that's a satisfactory solution to the sexist pronoun problem
because it excludes men in the same way that the generic he excludes
women.
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