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"screen-touch-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "Does a stylus touch register at the intended position across the lower screen, including near its edges?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "screen-touch-assessment-q02" }, { "text": "Does the documented calibration procedure resolve the observed touch error?", "kind": "action", "id": "screen-touch-assessment-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "controls-audio-and-lid", "name": "Controls, audio and lid", "description": "Assess buttons, microphone, audio and behaviour when the clamshell closes.", "findings": [ { "id": "game-required-inputs", "name": "Game-required inputs", "description": "Record the responsiveness of each interaction channel and verify lid behaviour against the running software.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which buttons, microphone functions and audio outputs respond correctly in a suitable test?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "game-required-inputs-q01" }, { "text": "What happens when the lid closes and reopens with the selected software, and 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"position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a Nintendo DS, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a Nintendo DS is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a Nintendo DS is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a Nintendo DS, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ 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"function-and-purpose-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the use of a Nintendo DS, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the use of a Nintendo DS is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-procedure", "name": "Handling and procedure", "description": "The steps, skills and tools involved in using a Nintendo DS.", "findings": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills", "name": "Procedures, skills and required tools", "description": "What an agent needs before it can act on a Nintendo DS at all.", "questions": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes handling a Nintendo DS, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", 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