What tasks were they measuring? I suspect that with a good interface the keyboard is more productive for some tasks and the mouse more productive for others.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Pew, Curtis G <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2021 9:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux On Jan 27, 2021, at 7:08 PM, David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote: > > Because using a mouse is a productivity killer! > Is it? “We’ve done a cool $50 million of R & D on the Apple Human Interface. We discovered, among other things, two pertinent facts: • Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing. • The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding. “This contradiction between user-experience and reality apparently forms the basis for many user/developers’ belief that the keyboard is faster.” https://secure-web.cisco.com/1cg28rjBjR8dXRGyiH8zaCB2vbqlwVR3SYz62phnYzIiwWeaTwfupKCWrPTwhTF08pP5ujO7mnJmPfS1Z7Dh-xLVR5ODP0_IBgcR78AUXfiu_QZU3LJ6oSx2AZbozerfSaHLT1KdqI_z1W4z6bI0vyIVcYLR1y-NmJ3xRAiKBaOiK8QXYa-3acMM3bLf4ZC7UoycG8gpcDEKF3fICHxoC3ZfxZqgbNnENqiA7VBNN4sY6MLeXAuQ13G5aProJCflrfUXQxoG0sq9FZ7uAtAODc0qF40j4IjJbV9W6AcyxBVmnrHNZisaOrTcRhdTdA40e4WnHAcMe22oXRpupgJsvuMpcrPSZ1SEP2bBlSUeccgZiOf3cCGvhx6ycvdvVt4A6zg6V1AZyRp2hPy-QuajZz4eW1XvdwhdwV2d_0c56r9BIwoVIVY8ENhoLE2uLVXVK/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.asktog.com%2FTOI%2Ftoi06KeyboardVMouse1.html -- Pew, Curtis G [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
