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I'm seeking someone who a) has already adapted a glove or ther input device
to do the work of a mouse or b)knows how to do this and is willing to try.

People like me who do a lot of keyboard and mouse input may be crippled by
pain due to RSI (repetitive stress injury). Reading about many solutions
suggests that the problem doesn't go away, and my own anlysis suggests it
is because the nature of the task -- constrained by the input device --
generates the injury. Trackballs exist but don't always work. Tablet & pen
combinations ( I am trying the PenMate) based on a graphics tablet with
magnetic field sensor can replace the mouse with a pen-like device. Good,
butr some drawbacks remain. 

What about using and adapting some of the game devices such as the Nintendo
*power glove*, or a joystick? The requirements would be to gen erate inputs
that are the equivalent of the Microsoft Mouse on the PC for the Windows
environment. Additional functions might be nice so that the mouse functions
would be the base set and it would be possible to select a variety of
commands otherwise from the keyboard, or the sensitivity/speed of the
cursor movement could be adapted on the fly. The ideal solution would allow
one to intuitively move one's hand or a joystick and thus control the
cursor motion.

The most obvious probelms are that the game devices are made for game
device ports. There needs to be some kind of electronic adapter so that the
computer gets the kinds of inputs it expects on the mouse port.

I am currently working in a PC/Windows environent but may switch to a Mac
or a UNIX environment so the solution should be general.

A couple of years ago there was apparently a lot of interest in the
Nintendo power glove, however I don't know if there are better things out
there today.

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