[RTTY] Keyboard vs Mouse

[Bill]

Well I don't think the typewriter has quite a million years of 
intuitiveness; But touch typing has been around for a few decades more 
than a mouse. (other than the kind that raid my garage in the winter)


On 2/27/2011 8:56 AM, Kok Chen wrote:
> On Feb 27, 2011, at 2/27    5:09 AM, David Levine wrote:
>
>> So I'm interested in why Bill (and thanks also for the contact
>> yesterday) feels it is less error prone and quicker to use the
>> keyboard as well as what the rest of the list thinks.
>
> Why restrict yourself to either the mouse or the keyboard?
>
> Personally, I think multi-touch screens can be easier and faster than
> a mouse, and more intuitive than a keyboard when you don't need to
> enter alphanumeric data.
>
> The latter requirement makes a touch screen moderately useless with
> SSB nor CW where you have to type most of the time, but a touch screen
> can be faster than a mouse when you want to select something.  With
> multi-touch gestures, you can reduce the need to move the hands to
> specific positions.  E.g., to engage or cancel AFC, just use a gesture
> anywhere on the screen rather than the need to point somewhere to
> touch or click it.
>
> A "remote" screen (such an iPad through WiFi) which you can move
> around makes it less likely to afflict carpal tunnel syndrome, too.
> (I have an existing Carpal Tunnel problem and I had in the last year
> or two been using Ergomotion's mouse because standard mice forced my
> right hand into a fixed angle -- the mouse appears to work for me, but
> even better would be no mouse at all :-).
>
> IMHO, anything that is more "intuitive" to man is going to be better.
> I.e., instead of training ourselves to match the computer hardware and
> software needs, make the computer hardware and software match what man
> has been doing for a million years.
>
> 73
> Chen, W7AY
>
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