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Well RSI and CTS are quite closely related, and as someone who has latter I can say that touch screens are worst possible input device possible. All swiping ge
by Orva 14y ago
Well RSI and CTS are quite closely related, and as someone who has latter I can say that touch screens are worst possible input device possible. All swiping gestures cause static strain, especially to wrists, which makes long time touch screen usage impossible. Even using touchpad gets painful fast, my laptop has to have "nipple" controller. Also all keyboards I use has to have clear actuation point so I can use as little strength as possible to type.
Game controllers are not better. Excerpt from wikipedia: "RSI is also used as an umbrella term for non-specific illnesses popularly referred to as Blackberry thumb, iPod finger, gamer's thumb"
- westoncb 14y agoHey Orva. Sorry to hear about the CTS :( Something I've seen from speaking with a lot of people with overuse injuries is that what activates a person's injury tends to vary a lot. I'd heard elsewhere that touchscreens were terrible and didn't try them for quite a while as a result. But for me they ended up being better for a lot of things. Additionally, game controllers are a large improvement in my case simply because I can hold it in my lap instead of extending my arms, and in my case there is only limited finger pain (more arms, elbows, wrists). The ideal here, however: are motion sensors--like the Kinect, but better. In fact I started out working with the Kinect, but it's not precise enough imo to create a nicely ergonomic coding system. However, things like The Leap (https://www.leapmotion.com/ https://www.leapmotion.com/) may be: it could take very subtle cues as inputs and track light hand motion.
- Orva 14y ago> Something I've seen from speaking with a lot of people with overuse injuries is that what activates a person's injury tends to vary a lot. In hindsight this really makes sense. Mine was most likely activated by combination of low-profile keyboard and finnish keyboard layout (almost all programming related special characters are behind right alt combinations). So it's not suprise that all reaching motions are not good. > The ideal here, however: are motion sensors--like the Kinect, but better. Kinect depth sensor has really low resolution (640x480, if I remember correctly) which is way too low if you want to interpret precisely small movements. I also was interested about Kinect for exactly same purpose, but those specs were too "meh". For this reason I have been waiting for Leap to be released since its announcement.
- keithpeter 14y agoI've learned from this as a 'casual' user of computers. What are the alternatives? Speech to text? DataHands? (http://www.datahand.com/products/proii.htm http://www.datahand.com/products/proii.htm)? Would you recommend a mechanical switch keyboard?
- gngeal 14y agoI'm still waiting for a biofeedback/brainwave based text input. Or a combined approach? Combine a few digital signals with eye tracking?
- nanctang 14y agoI don't know what's this means,use x360box to wirting w program,means we can don't use the keybord,i hard to work, although it is a good idea to find a work ,i see he want to study more ,everyone want to ,nice work to find a work,but not to study.if you realy want to study,you should __just study , not loudy to want every to know this.
- nanctang 14y agoI don't know what's this means,use x360box to wirting w program,means we can don't use the keybord,i hard to work, although it is a good idea to find a work ,i see he want to study more ,everyone want to ,nice work to find a work,but not to study.if you realy want to study,you should __just study , not loudy to want every to know this.