RSI issues will remain no matter what the input device (even if just gestural), since it's a catchall term. Treadmill-addicts, tennis pros, painters, truck drivers, all these people experience their own forms of repetitive strain injuries (rotater cuff injury, shin splints, neck strain, sciatica, degenerative disks). Even if we are only twitching our arms around in uninhibited air, we'll manage to develop some sort of injury-- do it enough, and the body will protest.
But as some of the earlier folks have pointed out, expanding on the options we have for interacting with a device is key to reducing these injuries. If I'm using gestural at home, voice recog in the car, and traditional pen-tablet (I haven't used a traditional mouse in 5 years) at work, then I'm reducing my RSI chances on, say, my elbow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36725 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
