Re:Why the Dvorak keyboard didn't take over the world (2014)...
by xpe on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @08:29PM
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> It's a constant source of stress. I'm only ever comfortable if I force myself to think slower.
I have some questions:
1. From a psychological point of view, have you explored ways of coping with this stress? What are your expectations? Do you know why you have the stress? Is about results? Is it about fluidity / flow / fluency? Something else?
2. This may be obvious, but I want to make sure I ask the question to make it really concrete: is one of your goals to transfer your thinking directly to the computer as quickly as possible?
3. Would you be willing to reframe your goal? Is it ok and perhaps even useful to think slower, without framing it as "forcing myself to think slower".
3A. Maybe you could reframe this process as not simply thinking slower but also allocating some of your mental processing to summarization and translation?
3B. No knock against your brain, but how do you actually measure your thinking speed, error rate, and latency relative to typing?
3C. There are a lot of counterintuitive things happening in the brain when you dig into the neuroscience. Some experiments show that our conscious mind lags some of our decisions. I say this to at least put a little doubt in your mind that your thinking is happening the way you think it is. I would not be shocked if your brain fires motor control circuits to cause your fingers to type before you are consciously aware of it.
3D. I would guess that fast typists are not consciously aware of all their key-by-key finger motions. I have not read this yet, but it seems relevant: "Hierarchical control of cognitive processes: The case for skilled typewriting." by Logan and Crump, 2011. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2011-04906-001
4. What technologies and/or methods have you considered?
5. Are you familiar with a steno machine (aka stenotype machine / shorthand machine / stenograph)? Might it work for you? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenotype
I have some questions:
1. From a psychological point of view, have you explored ways of coping with this stress? What are your expectations? Do you know why you have the stress? Is about results? Is it about fluidity / flow / fluency? Something else?
2. This may be obvious, but I want to make sure I ask the question to make it really concrete: is one of your goals to transfer your thinking directly to the computer as quickly as possible?
3. Would you be willing to reframe your goal? Is it ok and perhaps even useful to think slower, without framing it as "forcing myself to think slower".
3A. Maybe you could reframe this process as not simply thinking slower but also allocating some of your mental processing to summarization and translation?
3B. No knock against your brain, but how do you actually measure your thinking speed, error rate, and latency relative to typing?
3C. There are a lot of counterintuitive things happening in the brain when you dig into the neuroscience. Some experiments show that our conscious mind lags some of our decisions. I say this to at least put a little doubt in your mind that your thinking is happening the way you think it is. I would not be shocked if your brain fires motor control circuits to cause your fingers to type before you are consciously aware of it.
3D. I would guess that fast typists are not consciously aware of all their key-by-key finger motions. I have not read this yet, but it seems relevant: "Hierarchical control of cognitive processes: The case for skilled typewriting." by Logan and Crump, 2011. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2011-04906-001
4. What technologies and/or methods have you considered?
5. Are you familiar with a steno machine (aka stenotype machine / shorthand machine / stenograph)? Might it work for you? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenotype
6. Have you discussed this with others with similar goals? Have you read "Quest for a fully deterministic keyboard shorthand system" https://www.reddit.com/r/shorthand/comments/3ul9y3