The ZonePad
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Introduction
Introduction
Icons within the Zoneguide
Zoneguide usage with words
Zoneguide: mouse moves
basic Zoneguide Icons



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The screen is landscape oriented, the printed paper is portrait oriented. The display is designed to be dynamic in the way information is viewed which can't be transferred to paper.

Mousing over an icon or highlighted text will show a panel with related details. So you can read all the information in the document without scrolling or having to click on a new heading. Just point at the item.
NB some information is only visible while the mouse is over the icon, others remain in view until another item is selected (mouse pointed to it).

If there is more information on another document, it will also have an arrow icon () to show that a new document will be loaded.

Use the Printer Friendly Pages for paper copy.

The Zonepad will make it so that you don't have to point.
Introduction

The keyboard has been with us for over a century. It's a convenient way of entering letters. When we want to enter options it doesn't work so well, instead we use the mouse/icon which is very versatile, but uses a pointer. The Zonepad uses the advantages of both: the convenience of the keyboard with the versatility of the icons - using 'zonekeys' to select the icons not a mouse.

It's the Zoneguide that identifies where to press for any icon, letter, link or option displayed on the screen. The Zoneguide is what takes the Zonepad from just another key input method to a dynamic input solution.

Instead of being a set of fixed keys with basically fixed actions it becomes a set of zonekeys which can be whatever you want them to be, in the layout you want, to control whatever you want, in the way you want.

The zonekeys are easy to find from the layout and by feel.

It has the advantages of the mouse buttons without the disadvantages of pointing. Icons within the Zoneguide


Using the full Zonepad layout with icons

The zonekey position for letters, digits, some punctuation and line navigation are quickly identified using the Zoneguide and actioned using the embossing on the Zonepad. Punctuation, words and navigation zonepages are selected by the action keys to the sides.


Similarly with Punctuation and format

The zonepage allows for punctuation and text format control, which if necessary generates another zonepage.
5. Using the Zoneguide for entering Words


  		This shows the words as a table.
(7 rows with 7 columns)

 
This shows the same words surrounded by the Zoneguide which helps to identify where to press for the required word.

The embossed Zonepad helps to find it by feel - automatically touchtyping.
 Zoneguide - Mouse moves

The Zonepad has two ways of accessing a point on the screen

1. Like the mouse

- Each zonekey moves the pointer in the relative direction from the centre of the Zonepad (or Zoneguide). The further from the centre the bigger the move.

The inner zonekeys are single moves. They are small moves for fine alterations
The outer zonekeys (ie on the perimeter of the square) have greater steps and they autorepeat


2. Zoom Control

- The whole screen (or active area) becomes the Zoneguide layout (with the Zoneguide shown overlaid on the screen) and with each zonepress, the active area becomes the relative position of that zonekey within the Zoneguide.
The Zoneguide icons in the positions of the zonekeys they represent:



basic Zoneguide icons