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...numbness in wrists and arms as well as decreased dexterity in the fingers. The most frequent cause of RSI, at least for college students, is excess work at computer stations--especially in our rooms and on our particularly damaging laptops. Ideally, monitors should be at eye-level and keyboards should be positioned so that the user can type comfortably with unbent wrists. Wrist pads for the keyboard and mouse can in fact hinder proper hand position, though the evidence is inconclusive. Trackball devices are recommended by some sufferers as healthier alternatives to the mouse. Some advise keeping your hands warm...
...Horn's piece "God and the CS Student" (Opinion, Feb. 17) discusses RSI (Repetitive Stress Injury). Harvard has a number of resources available to students dealing with this problem. Briefly, if a student experiences pain or numbness in his or her hand, wrist or arm while using a computer keyboard, the student should stop typing, and see a primary care physician at the University Health Services...
...specifically for kiddie consumers, which goes for $650. NetSchools, a company based in Mountain View, Calif., started up last year to sell one product: a $1,600 portable computer custom-built for students that comes with an infrared connection to the school's computer network, a water-resistant keyboard and a built-in security device. That's an expense still too great for many cash-strapped districts. "Schools that bought into the earlier generation of technology are stuck," says Cuban. "The capital investment in desktops makes it difficult to buy this new thing called laptops." Harvard's Martha Stone Wiske...
...ailment, whose effects range from soreness and discomfort during extensive manual activity to permanent musculoskeletal damage to the hands, is difficult to explain. Ostensible caused include typing too much in uncomfortable positions, especially without taking breaks. Because of the role of Keyboarding in RSI, computer-science students run the highest risk. Yet for some reason, the lack of ergonomic keyboard equipment does not seem like a satisfying explanation for what has escalated from an annoyance into a bona fide plague. Why have so many students been struck by RSI? After thinking about it for quite some time, I realized that...
Angela Ng '99 followed, with a series of Chinese folk songs. She was accompanied by Wilson B. Chwang '01 on the electric keyboard...