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From: duncan@geppetto.ctt.bellcore.com (Scott Duncan)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology,comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: Wanted: references to computer mouse usage studies
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Date: 15 Dec 88 11:43:00 GMT
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In article <5139@pdn.UUCP> reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach) writes:
>
>     I find that most often I grasp the mouse (on a Sun 3/60) on the sides
>with my thumb and the pinky *and* ring finger.  The reason for this is that
>by only using the pinky on one side, I feel fatigue in that finger very
>quickly.  However, this means that one of the fingers used to depress a
>mouse button, assuming a three button mouse, must server two purposes:
>to help the pinky and then depress one of the mouse buttons.  Otherwise,
>one must use the middle finger to cover two mouse buttons.

I find, for what it's worth, that I hold the mouse as George describes but
tend to use my index finger for the middle and left buttons and the middle
finger only for the left one.  On the other hand, I am not doing many things
that require lots of mouse activity.  (At home on my Mac, I do a lot and I
believe my two-finger approach has been ingrained by the one-button mouse.)

Speaking only for myself, of course, I am...
Scott P. Duncan (duncan@ctt.bellcore.com OR ...!bellcore!ctt!duncan)
                (Bellcore, 444 Hoes Lane  RRC 1H-210, Piscataway, NJ  08854)
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