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12-31-2021, 06:32 PM (This post was last modified: 12-31-2021 06:36 PM by EugeneNine.)
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(12-31-2021 03:59 PM)Didier Lachieze Wrote:  
(12-31-2021 03:49 PM)EugeneNine Wrote:  Office software shouldn't be so complex, each version of Microsoft Office for example has gotten worse. I have to use it at work and connecting from home via Citrix that stupid ribbon takes 1/3 of my laptop screen.

You can hide the ribbon. Double-clicking on a ribbon tab will hide or show the ribbon.

You can but, but its still an additional layer of menus, on Outlook anyway. I just connected in and have a file, home, send/receive, view, help menu, then the collapsed menu then an all/unread row and finally the e-mail. I tried opening Word or Excel, but waited a couple minutes after clicking on them so I gave up (they "upgraded" us to windows 10 and everything is slooooow)

(12-31-2021 04:27 PM)David Hayden Wrote:  The entire analysis in section 5 is based on travel distance for one finger. This ignores the accuracy, which I think all users would agree is more important, and the fact that many users will use multiple fingers.

Regarding one-finger use, anyone who uses a calculator more than casually uses multiple fingers to type, and this is where the matrix design for the dgiits is most handy (pun intended).

When AT&T designed the touch tone telephone, they did extensive research on the design, so I'm inclined to believe that the matrix is a good idea for numbers. The author's seem to assume that they're the first to study a keyboard layout.

The paper ignores manufacturing issues. Wouldn't it be difficult to print (gack!) the symbols onto curved keys? Would it be more difficult to place them during manufacture?

I forgot about the multiple finger, wife was a trained accountant on 10key and IIRC three fingers sit in the middle "home" row just like a computer keyboard.
I want to say the ATT design was somewhat based on a circle IIRC, the early pushbutton phones had the buttons in the same place as the old rotary dial and they just started squeezing them down into a smaller circle which eventually flattened into a square.
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