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- From: pawlak@vxdesy.desy.de
- Subject: Re: End-user on-line Motif tutorial
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.124937.1@vxdesy.desy.de>
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- Organization: (DESY, Hamburg, Germany)
- References: <19JAN199322093522@cvdv99.mayo.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:49:37 GMT
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- In article <19JAN199322093522@cvdv99.mayo.edu>, fisk@cvdv99.mayo.edu (Tom Fisk | 2D-337 STM | 5-4341) writes:
- > [deleted....]
- >
- > Oh...here is a situation you are going to really like. We have some female
- > employees that just can not get the hand/eye co-ordination going with the
- > mouse. They always want to move their hand/mouse the _opposite_ direction they
- > want to move the pointer. We tried to figure out why this was. Turns out that
- > when the look at the terminal, they have some mental connection that says
- > they are in front of a mirror (where I am told some females spend some time)
- > and they do exactly everything _backward_ with the motor functions. The
- > only way we have been able to get them to move the pointer in the right
- > direction on the screen is to turn the mouse _upside down_. Yes...another
- > amazing but true story from the journals of learned behavior.
- >
- Hmmm... It can't be true. Workstation is a mirror! Stand side to side
- with the screen and move the mouse to see what I mean. Also don't they
- have 'up-down' problems with the turned mouse???
-
- Sorry, this post has nothing to do with VMS, I know....
-
- Michal (pawlak@vxdesy.desy.de)
-