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geekhack Community => Ergonomics => Topic started by: automator on Fri, 22 March 2013, 17:29:47

Title: mod keys with wrist/palm?
Post by: automator on Fri, 22 March 2013, 17:29:47

I've been thinking about non standard keyboard designs and trying to learn whats out there already...

Has there been any designs that use the wrist or palm instead of a finger to do mod keys or layer switching?

Title: Re: mod keys with wrist/palm?
Post by: davkol on Sat, 23 March 2013, 02:50:56

I've seen a Kinesis Advantage modded to have an arcade button under each palm.

I sometimes press Ctrl with my palm on ordinary keyboards, but I don't think it's a big deal (maybe I'm just clumsy, though).

Title: Re: mod keys with wrist/palm?
Post by: TotalChaos on Tue, 26 March 2013, 23:22:39

I am trying to cook up something to allow shifting with thumbs.

And also to do shift/alt/OS/ctrl with thumbs.

Then I would be in heaven.   Aaaaaah....

Title: Re: mod keys with wrist/palm?
Post by: Lanx on Wed, 27 March 2013, 00:28:27

Quote from: TotalChaos on Tue, 26 March 2013, 23:22:39

I am trying to cook up something to allow shifting with thumbs.

And also to do shift/alt/OS/ctrl with thumbs.

Then I would be in heaven.   Aaaaaah....

just do it with kinesis, if you need more buttons, go mod happy.

i currentlyhave my left thumb for backspace/shift

 
and right thumb enter/space

made the right ctrl into del and all is good.

Title: Re: mod keys with wrist/palm?
Post by: islisis on Mon, 01 April 2013, 04:09:20

Don't you need shift mirrored on both sides?