I would love to expand this discussion to how the use of gestural interaction, instead of the mouse, will allow those users who have been hindered by the mouse. I am thinking of those who use screen readers and other assistive technologies. Before the mouse we had keyboard, and accommodating those who used keyboard only were left behind.
Thoughts on how this could new form of interaction could become universal usability? Helen On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 5:58 AM, SteveJB <stevejba...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wouldn't adding a touch sensitive surface to replace the conventional > 2 buttons and scroll wheel on a mouse be a way of adding finger > gesture sensing technology to conventional mouses? > > The technology for adding touch sensing to contoured surfaces maybe a > few years off but it would certainly be more convenient for a user to > use their index finger to move the cursor over relatively small > distances than to do the same by moving the entire physical mouse. > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36725 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
