[OT] Ultimate Interface.

From: Andoni (no_spam_please_at_andoni-at-ireland-dot-com.com)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:28:30 +0100

Hello,

I have been asked by a charity in my home town to consult on getting a
computer system in to manage their rota of slightly over 300 volunteers
filling about 180 different duties (time slots) in a week.

The biggest problem they have without a doubt is getting the 60-80 year old
volunteers who form about 40% of the total number, to use any form of
computer interface to book duties where now a days the fill their names out
on a *** of paper in the box representing the duty they want to do.

Can you please give me suggestions for hardware mostly as to the VERY
simplest possible way to get somebody to enter data into a computer system.

In case you were wondering I am not being paid for this enterprise, so any
help you give is directly beneficial to the charity only.

Ideas I have come up with include having a big (say 19") touch screen with
no windowing so that they would have to press only twice, once on their name
and once on the duty they want to fill. Another is a scanner for reading the
hand written notes, but these are all expensive and can probably be
bettered.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance,
Andoni.

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