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From: STAT02@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu
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Subject: Re: Wanted: references to computer mouse usage studies
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Date: 13 Dec 88 02:02:21 GMT
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In article <5119@whuts.ATT.COM>, spf@whuts.ATT.COM (Steve Frysinger of Blue Feather Farm) writes:
 
>Can anyone point me to published empirical studies of computer
>mouse usage?
 
Sorry, can't point you to any published empirical studies, but I can
relate the results of an unpublished casual study undertaken while on
duty as a computer consultant. It has been my experience that females
more frequently take a longer time to become comfortable using a mouse.
(whether this has a cultural or biological basis, I don't know, and
frankly my dear, I don't give a damn :-). I was also struck, in a set of
letters published in one of those glossy trade journals on the sins /
virtues of mouse usage, that a larger percentage of the cons were from
females. I'll go hunt through my boxes of clippings to see if I can dig
this reference up...
 
John Kochmer / Dept. Biology / Yale Univ. / New Haven, CT
STAT02@YALEVM or KOCHMER@YALEVM (both BITNET)