Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!s1!jrk
From: jrk@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Keyboards - input devices
Message-ID: <315@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk>
Date: 13 Jan 89 19:00:48 GMT
References: <19626@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Reply-To: jrk@uea-sys.UUCP (Richard Kennaway)
Organization: University of East Anglia, Norwich
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In article <19626@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jmb@beach.cis.ufl.edu () writes:
>
>One thing that bothers me about keyboards is having to move my hands from
>their base points (heels).  Why can't the keyboard fit my fingers so that I
>don't have to move my hand around and lose its orientation?

A few years ago, in one of the computer rags, I saw an article about such a
keyboard.  It had the keys laid out so as (it was claimed) to fit the hands
better.  Instead of being in straight rows on a plane, they were arranged
roughly in two clusters around the positions of the hands, in such a way
as to minimise the amount of hand and finger movement required.  Not a
straight line in sight.  It looked like something designed by Dali.  I cant
remember any more details.  Does anyone recognise this?  Was it ever
commercially produced?

Would too little hand motion be as fatiguing as too much?

>...JMBoof
>(no cute signatures)
>jmb@beach.cis.ufl.edu, boof@ufpine.bitnet, uucp: let's play Marco-Polo!

-- 
Richard Kennaway                SYS, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.
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