On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Andy Wardley wrote: > > And I can get your job how, exactly ? > Apply for it.
Well, there's a thing. > We found out that reflective bicycle tape works just fine so we wrapped it > around the shaft of the suction pad "bullet" that gets fired out of a toy > gun. Now you can fire the gun at the screen from the other side of the > office, the suction pad sticks to the screen and the laser picks it up as > a mouse click. So, ideal for any shooty games where you normally have to kill things with mouse clicks (operation wolf, anyone ?) > > Has your research come to any conclusions about clickiness of keys, > > another strongly contentious point amoung keyboard users ? > > I should point out that the research I've done has been very informal > (also known as "playing around" to see what works and what doesn't) so > there aren't any published papers or technical reports drawing any firm > conclusions. Martin has written a couple of technical reports, but I > don't think there's anything covering keyboard clickiness. Pen-based > interaction is much more his thing (gesture recognition, etc). > > But I do recall seeing something in the CHI proceedings from either > this year or last on key clicking. I'll see if I can find it. I find myself curious, yet scared, yet curious, yet scared that someone got paid to conduct the research, and that someone paid for it. the hatter
