Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users do not believe it

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

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.lino@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
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> 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
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> Guilherme Lino
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