[–] bediger4000 2y ago ↗ 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.htmlI'm sure there are trackball prodigies that can do great things with them, but for the masses, they're not optimum. [–] ano-ther 2y ago ↗ 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 [–] bediger4000 2y ago ↗ It certainly resonates with my experience. How do we solve this dilemma? [–] sungho_ 2y ago ↗ So among the topics in the article is one about fine controlling the cursor
[–] ano-ther 2y ago ↗ 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 [–] bediger4000 2y ago ↗ It certainly resonates with my experience. How do we solve this dilemma?
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 24.3 ms ] threadI'm sure there are trackball prodigies that can do great things with them, but for the masses, they're not optimum.
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