mouse

LUCI gets some love from the press:
“After 30 Years, Computer Mouse Still Prevails”

via Happy 30th Birthday Computer Mouse | Three Decade Later the Mouse Still Trumps Multitouch Rivals | iPad and Kinect Can’t Compete | InnovationNewsDaily.

The world the mouse created

One cannot understand the success and longevity of the computer mouse without putting it in the context of the computing revolution it enabled. Before the mouse, users interacted with their computers by feeding in abstract punch cards or linguistically confusing lines of code words. The mouse transformed the computer into a visual device, thereby moving computing into the visual, immediate, “what you see is what you get” world that humans feel comfortable with.

“[The mouse] was a key development in the creation of graphic user interfaces,” said Donald Patterson, director of the Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction at the University of California, Irvine. “The mouse enabled long-term engagement with the screen, albeit indirectly, in a way that wasn’t particularly expensive and wasn’t prone to arm and hand fatigue.”