Just yesterday I downloaded a couple of kind-of-documentary-videos from Youtube about submarines, for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwTS3FYGhOc (the doc itself is not great but the resolution/detail of the video is good).
I was astonished to see that they have screens (touchscreens?) everywhere!
I was naive in this area and thought that at least submarines would rather have physical switches or at most something similar to the screens of jet fighters (e.g. http://falcon4.wdfiles.com/local--files/avionics%3Amfd/mfd_m... ) where any switch/option/selection is displayed at the border of the screen and mapped to a physical button on its rim, but that's apparently not the case.
I thought so because I thought that whoever uses the controls would like to have a physical feedback about switching a switch/button especially in a critical/stressful situation - but maybe they still get some kind of feedback (e.g. some external sound or vibration?)?
I was astonished to see that they have screens (touchscreens?) everywhere!
I was naive in this area and thought that at least submarines would rather have physical switches or at most something similar to the screens of jet fighters (e.g. http://falcon4.wdfiles.com/local--files/avionics%3Amfd/mfd_m... ) where any switch/option/selection is displayed at the border of the screen and mapped to a physical button on its rim, but that's apparently not the case.
I thought so because I thought that whoever uses the controls would like to have a physical feedback about switching a switch/button especially in a critical/stressful situation - but maybe they still get some kind of feedback (e.g. some external sound or vibration?)?