Actually there is a white paper on what the cause / effects of this are, it basically means you more likely to *click*
--- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Michael Minutillo < [email protected]> wrote: > I'm a random clicker and highlighter. I think it might be a nervous twitch > from my Diablo days. > > > Michael M. Minutillo > Indiscriminate Information Sponge > http://codermike.com > > > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Joseph Clark <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Woot! Thanks all for your replies :) At least I know I am not alone. >> >> I'll paraphrase as much of this as I can into some feedback for our >> team. >> >> Thanks heaps! >> >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Joseph Clark <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Hi list! >>> >>> This is a bit of an odd request, but I'm yet to find the right >>> incantation of search phrases that will yield results from the Internet - >>> hopefully you can help! >>> >>> There is a certain subset of computer users who, when reading text on >>> the screen, compulsively click or highlight text that they are reading on >>> the screen (I am one of them!). I didn't even know I was doing it until >>> someone pointed it out to me whilst I was pairing with them a few years ago. >>> >>> One of our in-house products recently shipped a new milestone version >>> internally with a new "feature" when viewing issues that allows you to >>> instantly edit the content of the fields on the screen simply by simply >>> clicking on them (turning the plain HTML into editable form controls >>> on-the-fly). This is pretty neat, but as a serial text-clicker, this >>> feature is downright infuriating. I was happy to put this down as either a >>> little personality quirk of my own, or merely some indication that I may be >>> insane, but a quick straw poll of those nearby finds at least 3 other >>> people who have the same behaviour, or some variant (one guy says he clicks >>> on browser windows a lot as a muscle-memory thing to ensure the right >>> browser window has focus). >>> >>> I'm trying to describe to the other team why this new feature sucks for >>> some people, but I have no idea if that "some people" is one in ten users, >>> or one in one million. Have searched a bit online for information about >>> this, but I don't really know what to search for. Does this user behaviour >>> have a name? Are there other people like me out there (hello? hello?)? Any >>> literature around on whether or not its a great idea to bind functionality >>> to an innocuous user-action like text-selection or clicking in an >>> apparently non-clickable area? >>> >>> Cheers! >>> Joe. >>> >>> >> >
