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>As an aside, other devices tested included teflon pads for the underside of
>a mouse, pads to run a mouse on, trackballs, joysticks, and the effects of
>scaling between mouse and cursor movement. Everything tested was worse, or
>was not statistically better, than the standard mac mouse.  In particular,
>the use of the "proportional control," (setting of (1) next to the mouse
>icon on the control panel) generally decreased performance on several tasks
>we measured. Overall, the tests indicated that user preference for these
>gadgets was not well-correlated with user performance.
>
>Craig Hansen

Really? I *LOVE* the proportional mouse control. I notice it IMMEDIATELY
if someone in the house has changed it on me. I use my mac mostly for
text processing (Word), terminal emulation and spreadsheets - the first
two aren't mouse-intensive, the last tends to be more so. I'm mostly using
the mouse to pull down menus, select dialog items, select text, set the
insertion point, etc. I DON'T do alot of stuff that would seem to require
finer control, like MacPaint.

-- Jerry Callen    ...(ima,ihnp4)!inmet!ada-uts!callen