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Many young children don’t have fully developed motor skills (fine motor skills in the hand and fingers typically develop fully between the ages of 5 and 6) and often have trouble using traditional mouse buttons. Children of this age often click next to targets, find pressing down unintuitive, and grip all their fingers at the same time so that the mouse is squeezed rather than clicked. This can lead to frustration and detract from the educational experience. |
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This [http://wiki.laptop.org/images/e/e7/Mouse_Squeeze_Flyer.pdf pdf] describes one possible solution. Besides being small, it has a single wide soft button under the front. |
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You can read the [http://wiki.laptop.org/images/e/e7/Mouse_Squeeze_Flyer.pdf advertisement for licensing the patent] from them. |
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==Problems== |
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* This mouse is not usable by children with long fingernails. |
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* While software can easily map two buttons as one, it can not go the other way. |
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* Because button presses are horizontal, undesired mouse movement is likely while pressing the button. |
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Revision as of 12:24, 12 November 2007
Many young children don’t have fully developed motor skills (fine motor skills in the hand and fingers typically develop fully between the ages of 5 and 6) and often have trouble using traditional mouse buttons. Children of this age often click next to targets, find pressing down unintuitive, and grip all their fingers at the same time so that the mouse is squeezed rather than clicked. This can lead to frustration and detract from the educational experience.
This pdf describes one possible solution. Besides being small, it has a single wide soft button under the front.