What I find really curious about the mouse vs keyboard argument is that so few people are willing to test and quantify it. I ran into an HCI researcher a while back and posed the mouse/keyboard question to him and he just said "Fitts's law"(ie. that the mouse requires more movement and therefore it *must* be inherently slower). Since the core of Tog's argument is that the part of our cognition that looks things up is inherently slower than our spatial interactions, I'm a bit disappointed that people seem content to rely on intuition rather than measurement to understand the problem.
Noah On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Guilherme Lino <guih.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > oh yea a apple R&D from 1989 that justifies everything, they're not even > trying to sell mac os computers < irony > > > its like Microsoft release a study saying widows are better than apples > or even microsoft is more productive than macOS or linux > just in a quick google search > http://gizmodo.com/348437/microsoft-says-vista-more-secure-than-xp-osx-and-linux > > every company always finds the results they're looking for > > > there are of course things you need the mouse for, and things that are > better with it... but generally keyboard is much faster on most day tasks, > people just don't have the patience to learn it > > > seriously this post looks like a awful excuse for people who are on the > wrong malign list xD > > > -- > > > Guilherme Lino >
