thom@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (Thom Gillespie) (12/26/89)
I just logged on to ask "What about feets for the mouse .. or kness?" I thought of this when I was sewing and realized that I couldn't use a sewing machine unless I had feet. Two hands are not enough. I realize it sounds like Rube Goldberg but I could probably deal with a foot track ball and a knee cap button. When I was young my Grandmother taught me to sew on an old iron peddle sewing machine. The auto history posting was interesting -- I'm glad Apple never patented the wheel first. --Thom Gillespie
mark@kimball.PARC.xerox.com (Mark Weiser) (12/27/89)
There have been papers at the last-couple-but-one, i.e. '88 and '87) Computer-Human Interaction conferences on feet-mice. The first paper has a discussion of previous attempts in this area, including a knee mouse (which caused leg cramps). Proceedings availabel from ACM, I guess. -mark -- Spoken: Mark Weiser ARPA: mark@mimsy.umd.edu Phone: +1-301-454-7817 After May 15, 1987: weiser@parcvax.xerox.com