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Not Only Is The World Not Black&White, It Is Not Just A Carousel of Color
[ http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2008/06/writecolorsm-multicoloring-for.html]
Humans Are MultiModal Creatures With MultiModal Minds
Here Within I Propose The Development and Implementation of Technology That Would Allow Authors/Readers to Highlight Text With Varying Degree of Texture.
TEXTURE
Wikipedia: Texture refers to the properties held and sensations caused by the external surface of objects received through the sense of touch.
Using Other/Related Haptic Technology Readers Would be Able To Feel That The Range of Textures Layered Over The Text Within A Corpus.
Such Texture Could Be Used to Denote Another Dimension Of The Text OR Denote Relative Importance.
[ http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2008/06/writecolorsm-multicoloring-for.html ]
THINK That This Is FarFetched? Not Really.
A Decade Ago I Began to Explore Haptic Interaction in Web and non-Web Databases: The Magic Touch(sm).
Your Thoughts On Text~Touch(sm)? Please Post As A Comment On The Posting In The Scholarship 2.0 Blog at
[ http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2008/06/texttouchsm-haptic-highlightingrating.html ]
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[ http://tinyurl.com/3uznzo ]
The Web Is Not Only Semantic - It's Haptic!
/Gerry
Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011
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There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come
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Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows
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