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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
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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.
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Doug Salot || doug@feedme.UUCP || ...{trwrb,hplabs}!felix!dhw68k!feedme!doug
                    "Thinking: The Thinking Man's Sport"