> On Jul 1, 2009, at 12:46, Charles Forsyth <fors...@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
