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About 40 years ago a University of Houston and University of Texas Medical School Professor of Psychology, Dr. Daniel E. Sheer, developed a similar system. The
by giardini 9y ago
About 40 years ago a University of Houston and University of Texas Medical School Professor of Psychology, Dr. Daniel E. Sheer, developed a similar system. The result: an Apple II game system for use by patients with brain damage or dysfunction to retrain the fine control of their hands. Several systems were installed in Houston area hospitals as a result of the work.
The system was adjustable to the user's tremors and had a number of parameters to adjust the "smoothness" and responsiveness of the cursor. It worked with both joystick and mouse, as I recall.
- lifepillar 9y agoIt sounds like something really innovative for those times. Do you know more about that system? Is there a disk image anywhere?
- giardini 9y agoYeah, mostly back then we sat around and beat rocks together to make arrowheads, with the occasional pause to build nuclear-capable ICBM systems, travel to the moon and back, and put frickin' death lasers on dolphins. "really innovative"...sheesh! And, oh yeah, we started the "War on Cancer" and the "War on Drugs".