utoddl@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Todd M. Lewis) (11/09/88)
Several weeks ago I posted a survey asking whether people
were right-handed or left-handed, and which hand they
operate their mouse with.
The results: YES, poople are right- or left-handed, and
they use both hands:-) But seriously, folks:
Use Use
Left Right
Hand Hand
Left
Handed 4 9
Right 2 29
Handed
Several people went on at great length (I'm not complaining;
Thanks to all) about how and why their mouse techniques are
unique. (Of course you're unique. You're unique, I'm unique,
we're all unique! Just because you're unique don't go thinking
you're any different from anybody else!)
Several other people also wanted to know why I was asking
about this. Well, to make a short story longer, I got into a
friendly discussion with a one-mouse-button enthusiast, and he
asserted that for the two-button setup to really work the user
needed to be able to switch the functions of the buttons if a
left-handed person was going to be as productive as a right-handed
person (for whom, he presumed, the software was designed). I
said NO, and in your comments (all 44 USENET readers responded:-)
not one mention was made about left-/right-button problems.
So there. I feel smug, and his computer can't do color.
Again, thanks to all who responded.
--Todd
(Q: Why do mice have small balls? )
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(A: Only 1/3 of them can dance. )wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) (11/10/88)
Here, my A1000 is on the left side of a table and the Unix PC 3b1 is on the right. Due to space limitations, the two machines' mice are in between the machines on the table. This makes it expedient to use the amiga mouse with right hand and the 3b1 with the left. I don't see any advantage of using one hand over the other. I suppose if the machines were reversed I'd switch hands appropriately. The IBM AT clone is banished to its own corner (go sit in the corner!). It has an optical mouse. When I use that machine, I usually have the mouse board in my lap, as the pc is sitting on a very small typing cart. I'm not sure which hand I use most frequently to position the mouse in that case. I wonder if there is any left-brain versus right-brain significance to the fact the amiga is on the left and the 3b1 is on the right :-).