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Naval touchscreens
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2019–2022), in 3 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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No tactile feedback on touchscreen controls, so operators struggle to use themUnreviewed
20192026- Heavy rolling makes miskeying common; touchscreens lack tactile feedback and are hard to use in dust or moisture2022-11-30
- Touch screens give no muscle memory, so operators can't operate them reliably by feel2019-12-21
- Touch controls lack haptic feedback, so operators can't build muscle memory and crash into docks2019-08-12
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 8 complaints
- Heavy rolling makes miskeying common; touchscreens lack tactile feedback and are hard to use in dust or moisture2022-11-30
- Touch screens give no muscle memory, so operators can't operate them reliably by feel2019-12-21
- Touch controls lack haptic feedback, so operators can't build muscle memory and crash into docks2019-08-12
- Touchscreen controls give no tactile feedback, so operators struggle to use them2019-08-12
- Turning actions are imprecise on touchscreens; finer adjustments are hard to make with a finger2019-08-11
- Touchscreens for critical controls are error-prone and fail-prone, so hard to operate reliably2019-08-11
- Touchscreen controls require constant visual attention, unlike physical controls operable by touch and memory2019-08-11
- Touchscreens are inferior to mechanical controls for dedicated high-stakes systems2019-08-11