2009/6/3 Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]> > On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 17:27:00 +1200 Robin Paulson <[email protected]> > said: > > > apparently, triangular buttons produce less errors. > > > > http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/06/02/crocodile_keyboard/ > > > > i'm not totally convinced, but it would be worth a go, i think > > he's smoking crack. his logic (that more deadspace makes for less > mis-presses) > is just wrong. it makes for fewer "presses". you hit the deadspace much > more > often and press nothing. if you simply expanded each key to just fill the > rectangular region it ocupies (which it effectively does as that space is > unused and dead) hen you get a no less accurate keyboard than what he as, > but > somewhere were u are MORE likely to actually hit a key as opposed to hit > nothing. >
What you're saying is logical. But I think the idea is that the dead space makes you want to hit the keys more accurately. So the smaller key teaches you how to hit more exactly. I don't know if it's true, but I would rather first try it out than say it's total bullshit.
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