[GTALUG] Why Everyone Wants to Kill the Mouse and Keyboard

Scott Sullivan scott at ss.org
Fri Oct 31 14:53:56 UTC 2014


On 10/31/2014 09:37 AM, Bill Thanis wrote:
> A stylus and really good hand writing recognition software is about the
> only thing I would give up a keyboard and mouse for.
>
> Bill

It used to be that you would learn the keyboard shortcuts. But as menus 
became bigger, unless your work with a particular application all day, 
you mostly go by mouse. Folks don't spend enough time on application 
design to make them keyboard friendly, and the number of applications 
available has exploded.

In narrower fields I do some power users learning their keyboard 
short-cut, digital artists for example.  But even they only learn the 
shortcuts to a varying degree. What I'm seeing more of is context popup 
menus. You'll start typing, and based on where your mouse is, it will 
search the applications functions, and you can select from a shrinking list.

Handwriting recognition doesn't help improve that case. If anything, 
unless your ambidextrous you've now committed two channels of input to a 
single hand. Namely pointing and character input.

-- 
Scott Sullivan



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