Back to school with tablets embedded in digital desks

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2009-09-01

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Mammana, Victor Pellegrini
Hiraga, Cynthia Yukiko
Pellegrini, Ana Maria [UNESP]
Den Engelsen, Daniel
De Almeida, Carlkos Luiz Alberto
De Paulo, Alexandre Cândido
Alves, Gustavo Junior
Neto, Miguel Joao
Mammana, Carlos Ignacio Zamitti
Do Amaral, Antonio Carlos Camargo

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A digital-desk pilot program, named One Laptop Per Child (OPLC), in Brazil uses a unique display design to provide an interactive interface developed to enhance education and minimize ergonomic concerns. The one-to-one computer strategy as proposed by Nicholas Negroponte is a way of circumventing the tragedy of the locked computer lab because it gives children full access to computers anytime. The OLPC program has focused on a solution that minimizes power consumption, which also limits the display's maximum size and processor performance because the LCD backlights are responsible for a significant part of the power consumption in laptops. The government has also developed a new type of low-cost tablet that is based on a resistive principle. High transparencies can be obtained in the 90% range in the tablet, while robustness is guaranteed by the outstanding tribological characteristics of Sn02 on glass.

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Computer lab, Display designs, High transparency, Interactive interfaces, LCD backlights, Pilot programs, Power Consumption, Processor performance, Tribological characteristics, Electric power utilization, Laptop computers, Program processors

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Information Display, v. 25, n. 9, p. 24-27, 2009.