CURTIS J WHITCOMB, AU.D., CCC-A, FAAA
Speech Language Pathology at Cole Rd, Boise, ID
License number
Idaho AUD-1244
Category
Speech Language Pathology
Type
Audiologist
License number
Idaho AUD-1244
Category
Speech Language Pathology
Type
Audiologist-Hearing Aid Fitter
Address
Address
1084 N Cole Rd, Boise, ID 83704
Phone
(208) 377-0019
(208) 377-0313 (Fax)
(208) 377-0313 (Fax)
Professional information
Curtis J Whitcomb, Boise ID - AUD
Specialties:
Audiology, Audiology (Hearing Aid Fitting), Audiology Technology
Address:
1084 N Cole Rd, Boise 83704
(208) 377-0019 (Phone), (208) 377-0313 (Fax)
(208) 377-0019 (Phone), (208) 377-0313 (Fax)
Languages:
English
Ergonomic Computer Mouse
US Patent:
2002015, Oct 24, 2002
Filed:
Mar 15, 2002
Appl. No.:
10/101535
Inventors:
Curtis Whitcomb - Boise ID, US
International Classification:
G09G005/08
US Classification:
345/163000
Abstract:
This invention is a pointing device, i.e. a computer mouse, for producing computer program commands issued by young children or others that have difficulty operating a conventional mouse device. A rotatable ball or other pointing mechanism is provided in the housing. A horizontally-elongated button is located within the front surface of the housing. This button, having a horizontal arc of between approximately 150 to 180 degrees, may be readily operated by any or all of the fingers of one hand of the user and may be pulled backward by cupping the hand in a grasping action. This eliminates the physically-difficult downward, single-finger, pressing action required of conventional pointing devices. Preferably, the mouse has a mass of approximately 150-250 grams, which, for the preferred small-volume mouse, amounts to a high-density mouse that tends to reduce or eliminate rapid or erratic movements that may be inadvertently initiated by the young or less-then-dexterous user.