Maximizing Mouse (Not Keyboard) Potential (opens in new tab)

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bediger40002y ago· 3 in thread

Track balls almost always are worse than mice, in terms of speed and accuracy acquiring a target. This is typical: https://www.billbuxton.com/fitts91.html

I'm sure there are trackball prodigies that can do great things with them, but for the masses, they're not optimum.

That doesn’t resonate with my experience which is trackball > trackpoint > mouse >>> trackpad for precision and speed.

In their marketing material from the early 90s (the date of your study) Kensington used speed as a key argument. http://xahlee.info/kbd/kensington_expert_mouse_hist.html

It certainly resonates with my experience. How do we solve this dilemma?

sungho_OP2y ago

So among the topics in the article is one about fine controlling the cursor

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