The "search for simplicity" in silviculture is often also encouraged by staff shortages and overly complex, computerized desk-work environments, where foresters have to deal with multifarious and new, distracting aspects.
To this end, we compared a large computerized desktop (digital desk) to a standard desktop computer and a small tablet environment for two typical architecture design tasks: sketching and image sorting.
Above the low rumble of the escalator, the rhythmic calls of the woman behind the reception desk ("Next!") and the computerized voice calling out ticket numbers, the sound of people raising their voices took on something of a choral pattern.
I started by hitting the information desk, where there are now computerized stations that have interactive menus with schedules, maps and the like.
At a registration desk, parents were lining up at a computerized check-in system to get name tags for their kids before sending them in to the schoolrooms for children's church, which offers Bible lessons, worship, playtime, and snacks.
The old-fashioned way, even if it consists of a rubber band in your desk drawer, can be a good backup for the computerized information.
Since about 1960, however, lens design has been almost entirely computerized, and the old methods of designing lenses by hand on a desk calculator are rapidly disappearing.
Minutes later, the selection comes up from the computerized climate-controlled wine cellar via a dumbwaiter behind a U-shaped sales desk.
Biometric identification kits — with electronic thumb-pads like those at airport immigration desks — would be used to double-check names on a computerized voting register.
See also computerized typesetting.
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