Re: [9fans] Guide to using Acme effectively?

[Noah Evans <noah.evans@gmail.com>]

It's not how you say something, it's what you say.

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:24 PM, <blstuart@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> On Jul 1, 2009, at 12:46, Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net> wrote:
>>
>>>> I think Tog's conclusions (the single set of studies put forth
>>>> whenever this thing
>>>> comes up) are poorly made ...
>>>
>>> it turns out that there is rather older work that supports
>>> much the same conclusion, which i probably saw mentioned in HCI
>>> Remixed,
>>> since that's one i've read recently.
>>>
>>
>> I've seen a couple of independent time trials from the mid 80s that
>> supported the same conclusion.
>
> I won't dispute the conclusions on the time criteria.
> I'm just not sure time is the right thing to measure.
> I spend relatively little of my time actually typing
> or moving the cursor, etc.  The majority of my time
> is spent thinking, so I'm much more interested in
> what distracts me less and what causes the least
> irritation.  And I do find moving my hand back and
> forth between the keyboard and mouse to be a
> bit irritating.  I will say, however, that I find acme
> to be the least irritating of the pointer-based
> applications I've used.
>
> BLS
>
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