The mouse that
roared
Michael Kanellos, CNET,
September 18, 2003
Bill English who built
the first mouse based on Doug Engelbart's
design, moved from SRI to Xerox's Palo Alto
Research Center (PARC) and began work on input
devices with Stuart Card, an expert on human-machine
interaction.
To a large degree, the
mouse technology has survived because it harmonizes
almost perfectly with human hand-eye coordination,
Card said. If you drew two targets on a screen
and bounced between them with different devices,
you would perform the task faster and with
more accuracy with a mouse than with a track-pointer,
a joystick or a touch pad - even if the mechanisms
all ran at the same speed.
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