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   Howard Chu @ Symas (hyc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Oct-2024 05:29:58 JST Howard Chu @ Symas

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   • Wilfred Hughes

   @wilfredh in my human factors course in ~1989, the research we read all said cursor keys were #1 for efficiency when navigating text. #2 was trackballs. Mice were dead last. Of course Steve Jobs had to popularize mice...

   Mice lose by a huge margin because they require you to pick up your hand and move (possibly multiple times) and then re-find your position on keyboard.

   Trackballs also allow higher precision fine motion as well as coarse motion.

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     Antiqueight (antiqueight@mastodon.ie)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Oct-2024 05:29:58 JST Antiqueight

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     • Wilfred Hughes

     @hyc @wilfredh the picking up my hand and moving it over and back from the keyboard to the mouse is what prompts me to learn the keystrokes needed not to have to use the mouse - I can't believe that a mouse is more efficient.

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     Wilfred Hughes (wilfredh@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Oct-2024 05:30:00 JST Wilfred Hughes

     I'd heard the conventional wisdom that UX research states that mice are more efficient than keyboards, but turns out there's virtually no research on this!

     https://danluu.com/keyboard-v-mouse/