Xref: utzoo comp.cog-eng:554 comp.windows.misc:579 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!amdahl!oliveb!felix!dhw68k!feedme!doug From: doug@feedme.UUCP (Doug Salot) Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng,comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: Using kinesthetic memory for human interfaces Message-ID: <111@feedme.UUCP> Date: 28 Jun 88 18:08:11 GMT Reply-To: doug@feedme.UUCP (Doug Salot) Organization: Feedme Microsystems, Orange County, CA Lines: 16 Hey, I've got an idea: How about a paradigm in which subtle wrist and finger movements are used to select items from a menu, and the movements themselves map in some natural way to the meaning of item being selected. Once the associations are learned, users will be able to select items with their eyes closed! But of course the hard part is trying to come up with a universal movement->meaning map. If only there were a way to associate.... Hey! What if you used some sort of mnemonic, say a letter or group of letters that could easily map to verbs and nouns, and the subtle movements could map directly to letters! We could call this device the keyboard! It could obsolete these clumsy mice we're all trying to use for tasks they're clearly not suited for. -- Doug Salot || doug@feedme.UUCP || ...{trwrb,hplabs}!felix!dhw68k!feedme!doug "Thinking: The Thinking Man's Sport"