On Tue, 2007-22-05 at 10:19 +0200, apfelmus wrote:
I can't know whether that's the case, but the fact that virtually all commands are invoked with the keyboard clashes with HID research reported at
http://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html
It adresses the question whether selecting commands in menus with the mouse or accessing them via keyboard shortcuts is faster. The answer is:
"* Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing. * The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding."
You beat me to the punch. And to exactly the same URL, in fact.
I see strong parallels between the insistence that keyboarding is faster
than mousing and the insistence that manual memory management is faster
than automated memory management.
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Michael T. Richter