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Don't use swipe gestures if your users wear lab gloves.
by Odenwaelder 9y ago
Don't use swipe gestures if your users wear lab gloves.
- Blahah 9y agoin my experience, most lab gloves work fine with capacitive touch screens
- a3n 9y agoI just spent four years in a blood lab testing devices with touch screens. But they were screen button pushes, not swipes. Still, no problem.
- lfowles 9y agoI would be annoyed if any of them "gripped" the screen when I was swiping, causing jumpy motions.
- analog31 9y agoIndeed, a big trend in lab equipment right now is moving to capacitive touch screens, so this issue is being addressed by the equipment makers.
- jschwartzi 9y agoIt's specifically addressed by the use of Projected Capacitance touch screens(pCAP), which project the electric field far enough to where perturbations in the field can be detected through thin gloves. They still don't work through cold weather gear, but at that point your dexterity is severely compromised.
- Odenwaelder 9y agoThe touchscreen itself is not the issue. You can't swipe properly because the rubber from the glove gets stuck to the glass of the screen. It's extremely annoying and most UX designers don't think about this.