Newsgroups: comp.human-factors Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!prisoner From: prisoner@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Allen S. Firstenberg) Subject: Re: Look Ma, no hands. Message-ID: Nntp-Posting-Host: aix01srv.aix.rpi.edu References: <1991Jun21.024048.17488@msb.com> Date: 21 Jun 91 18:16:02 GMT Lines: 20 dave@msb.com (Dave Lockwood) writes: >Has anyone ever tried a pointing device (i.e. mouse) operated by foot? This >might be the answer for word processing...users could use the "foot-mouse" >to move the cursor, and mark text, while keeping hands on the keyboard. I've never used one, but I did see a video of an experimental one made by Engelbart and his team in the 1960s. They abandoned it in favor of the mouse (which they also designed) because the mouse/chordset was easer to use. >If the mechanical hurdles of dirt, and durability could be overcome, the >device would be fairly simple and inexpensive to produce. Yes, but it might be a pain to operate. (Of course, I think the mouse is a pain to operate... but...) -- UID = 5553, CCID = F8PG, ID = 6 I am just a number prisoner@rpi.edu "refs unpersons" prisoner@acm.rpi.edu --- 1984 prisoner@rpitsmts.bitnet