Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!news.iastate.edu!vaxf.iastate.edu!TAAK9 From: taak9@isuvax.iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) Newsgroups: comp.human-factors Subject: Re: Carpal Tunnel& Ulnar Nerve Entrapment Message-ID: <1991Jun28.033036.9936@news.iastate.edu> Date: 28 Jun 91 03:30:36 GMT References: <1991Jun25.183429.3457@aucs.AcadiaU.ca> <1991Jun27.175225.22984@colorado.edu>, Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: taak9@isuvax.iastate.edu Distribution: na Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA. Lines: 43 In article , cpetterb@glacier.sim.es.com (Cary Petterborg) writes: >In article <1991Jun27.175225.22984@colorado.edu> rob@spot.Colorado.EDU (Rob Cuthbertson) writes: > >>(disclaimer: I don't pretend to be an authority on the preventative or >>curative value of this change, but it IS a more comfortable position. >>Try this -- hold your arms in a typing position, with palms down. Now >>turn your hands so the palms face each other. Which position would YOU rather >>be in for 2000 hours/year?) > >I have been interested in the keyboard discussions going on, but missed some >of the postings, so I don't know if this has been discussed before: > >I think that it would be much easier to "break" the keyboard apart and >put the keypad between the positions for the hands. This would separate >the hands to a more comfortable position and leave the keypad and cursor >keys in the middle where either hand could be used. Does anyone else >like this idea? There are certain problems, but I think that it would >be workable. Hmm, I saw this and started thinking. Perhaps breaking it apart. Another idea would be to curve the keyboard rows. Your arms come in at angles to reach the center keys, so perhaps curving the rows so you don't need to twist your wrist. > >Did anyone else see the One-Handed keyboard at SIGCHI '91? I thought >it had some real promise, too. > >Cary >-- >_______________ >Cary Petterborg (801)582-5847 x6446 >Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp. Simulation Division SLC, UT 84108 >UUCP: ...!uunet!sim.es.com!cpetterb *NET: cpetterb@glacier.sim.es.com >_______________ > "A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you > are loved by others." -Wizard of Oz Steve Sheldon /// taak9@ccvax.iastate.edu /// Iowa State University \XX/