From the July 28, 1996 EduPage:
-> DVORAK COULD BE ANSWER TO REPETITIVE STRESS INJURIES
-> The Dvorak keyboard, developed in the 1930s by August Dvorak at the
-> University of Washington as an alternative to the slower-paced QWERTY
-> system, has never really caught on with typists or keyboard
-> manufacturers, despite its acknowledged superiority in typing speed.
-> That may change in the future, however, as repetitive stress injuries
-> continue to cripple high-volume typists.  In recent tests at the
-> University of Pittsburgh, users of the Dvorak keyboard were able to
-> reduce their tendon movement by 6% to 10%.  "That doesn't sound like
-> much," says the researcher in charge of the study, "but it can make a
-> significant difference to people who do a lot of typing."  A 1944
-> U.S. Navy study of typists who'd received Dvorak keyboard training
-> found that "the average time for the typists to reach their Standard
-> Keyboard net speed was 52 hours" and that the Dvorak typists
-> out-typed the QWERTY typists "by an average of 68% in accuracy and
-> 74% in net typing speed."  (Technology Review Jul 96 p21)
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