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- From: ematias@dgp.toronto.edu (Edgar Matias)
- Subject: Re: GUIs Considered Harmful
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.170618.15240@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
- References: <1992Sep3.204645.25303@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1992Sep8.071419.28920@Princeton.EDU> <1992Sep9.184431.2413@lsl.co.uk>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 21:06:19 GMT
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- snail@lsl.co.uk writes:
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- >I'm right handed and use my mouse with my left hand. This is so obvious and
- >yet most right handed people use the mouse with their right hand. This has the
- >disadvantage that most right handed peoples left hands aren't capable of much
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- I'm afraid you are wrong about that. For typing, right-handed people can
- type as fast or faster with their left hand than their right. An experiment
- has be performed that tested this. I can't remember the reference off the
- top of my head, but I can look it up if anyone is interested.
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- It makes a lot more sense to use your dominant hand for the mouse and
- your non-dominant hand for typing. Right-handed people should use their
- right hand for the mouse.
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- Edgar
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