Comments for David M Hood http://www.davidmhood.com Math, Patterns, Computers, and Statistics -- Geek Stuff Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:51:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on Human-Computer Interaction Efficiency Part 2 – Quick Keys and Quick Launchers by admin http://www.davidmhood.com/?p=21&cpage=1#comment-28 admin Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:43:37 +0000 http://www.davidmhood.com/?p=21#comment-28 I personally don't like mouse gestures. I try to minimize my mouse usage because it hurts my hand and, generally in the long run, I think its not the most efficient way to interact with the computer. All those things you listed can be done with keyboard shortcuts. With AutoHotKey, you can even set it up to be done with one hand on the keyboard. However, if your hand is already on the mouse all the time while browsing and you don't get pain from using the mouse a lot, then I can see how it would be more efficient to just use a mouse gesture. I personally don’t like mouse gestures. I try to minimize my mouse usage because it hurts my hand and, generally in the long run, I think its not the most efficient way to interact with the computer. All those things you listed can be done with keyboard shortcuts. With AutoHotKey, you can even set it up to be done with one hand on the keyboard. However, if your hand is already on the mouse all the time while browsing and you don’t get pain from using the mouse a lot, then I can see how it would be more efficient to just use a mouse gesture.

]]> Comment on Human-Computer Interaction Efficiency Part 2 – Quick Keys and Quick Launchers by Brett http://www.davidmhood.com/?p=21&cpage=1#comment-26 Brett Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:55:24 +0000 http://www.davidmhood.com/?p=21#comment-26 Don't forget about mouse gestures. I love being to easily navigate multiple tabs of webpages, and open/close tabs with just my mouse hand. It's one of the few reasons I still stick with Opera. Firefox does have a mouse gestures plugin you can get, but I just don't like its implementation as well. But yeah, for doing real work a good vocabulary of keyboard shortcuts makes things much faster and smoother. Don’t forget about mouse gestures. I love being to easily navigate multiple tabs of webpages, and open/close tabs with just my mouse hand. It’s one of the few reasons I still stick with Opera. Firefox does have a mouse gestures plugin you can get, but I just don’t like its implementation as well.

But yeah, for doing real work a good vocabulary of keyboard shortcuts makes things much faster and smoother.

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