bad argument
you do realise that you are arguing for the continued existence of a horrible interface completely contradicts you earlier waffle on "embedded or integrated or attached to the person, with many different forms of input (voice, hands, eyes, recognition of facial gestures".
also
Your mention of a NOVICE user is a very big stretch of an example, and of course, using the worst case scenario is not how usability of tablets or laptops or desktops should be approached.
em...have you done usability testing? you DESIGN for the novice, my example is a perfectly legitimate One,(what's more- THIS IS ACTUALLY WHAT IS HAPPENING)
anyone who knows the alphabet can work a keyboard? -certainly, and by the same logic they can also play piano - still doesn't make it intuitive does it?
the keyboard is a bad interface- as far as ergonomics go it's actually the devil
-the only reason ergonomics is even mentioned with respect to keyboards is because it's soooo ergonomically unfriendly, you talk about them as if it where a foot spa.
Luckily though I can see the light and know that the keyboard will ultimately vanish into history- soon there will be no typing- how's that for ergonomics!
