I have a surf mouse which is kind of fun on my standup desk. I never really got the hang of it, but it is too cool to get rid of. https://www.surfmouse.io/ maybe it is for you.
This is so cool. How'd you find it? Can you use it continuously for a whole day? Can you use it while sitting? How long does it take to learn and adapt to it?
I found the creator on reddit a year or so back where he showed it off. I want to support small guys so I took a chance that it wasn't a scam, and it came and works.
I find that it forces standing perfectly straight and still, while I like to wobble when standing so I never use it long.
I never tried sitting with it, the FAQ says you can. YMMV.
Learning doesn't take long, just plug it in, stand on it an watch your mouse move.
Can't wait for the eye tracking of the Apple VR headset as described in this video to become more common https://youtu.be/OFvXuyITwBI?t=228 seems like the most ergonomic way to interact with the computer
I find eye-tracking interface to be very clunky and constraining. You have to restrict where you are pointing your eyes, or you will select things by accident and then you'll miss what's going on in the world. I think any prolonged session will give people eye-strain. 3D goggles already do. With eye-tracking doubly so.
EXPLORATORY EVALUATIONS OF TWO VERSIONS
OF A FOOT-OPERATED CURSOR-POSITIONING
DEVICE IN A TARGET-SELECTION TASK
GLENN PEARSON, MARK WEISER, University of Maryland
Abstract
An investigation is on-going concerning the
use of feet instead of hands to perform
workstation cursor-positioning and related
functions. In the exploratory studies
reported here, two versions of a particular
foot-operated device, the swing mole, were
assessed against a mouse in a base-line
target-selection task. This task had some of
the elements involved in text editing, but did
not directly include keyboard entry. The
study showed that novices can learn to select
fairly small targets using a mole, while
revealing shortcomings in the current mole
design and suggesting directions for
redesign.
EXPLORATORY EVALUATION OF A PLANAR FOOTOPERATED CURSOR-POSITIONING DEVICE
Glenn Pearson and Mark Weiser,
Computer Science Department,
University of Maryland,
College Park, Maryland 20742.
ABSTRACT
The use of feet instead of hands to perform
workstation cursor-positioning and related
functions has been the subject of an on-going
investigation. In the exploratory study reported here, a particular foot-operated device,
the planar slide mole, was assessed against a
mouse in a target-selection task. The study
showed that novices can learn to select fairly
small targets using a mole; for a target size of
l/S” square, the response time equaled that of
the mouse when keyboard homing time was
taken into account.
The Feet in HCI: A Survey of Foot-Based Interaction
EDUARDO VELLOSO, Lancaster University;
DOMINIK SCHMIDT, Hasso Plattner Institute;
JASON ALEXANDER, Lancaster University;
HANS GELLERSEN, Lancaster University;
ANDREAS BULLING, Max Planck Institute for Informatics
2. RELATED WORK
We are not the first to attempt to systematise the work on foot interaction. When
Pearson and Weiser began the development of their moles, they provided a historical classification of the feet in the interaction with devices. In the pre-industrial era,
their function was to transmit both power and control (e.g. the horseman’s stirrup, the
farmer hay fork and shovel, the pipe’s organist’s bellows and foot keys, the potter’s
kick wheel). With the advent of electricity and other means of providing power, their
function shifted to control alone (e.g. car pedals, arcade games, gas pressure controls,
guitar effects pedals). Finally, they were used for foot-mediated input for computers
(e.g. flight controls for aircrafts and simulators and volume and sustain controls in
music synthesisers) [Pearson and Weiser 1986]. Whereas this classification puts the
role of the feet as an interaction modality in context, it does not provide a structure for
modern devices.
