The image in my head as I was typing was that, if I removed the laptop beneath my fingers, I’d be basically signing in space. Sign language works differently in several distinct ways, but I guess my thought was that, we communicate with computers the same way we communicate with deaf people. I mean we don’t say the same things to them, but we use hand gestures to communicate. When we “speak” to deaf people using sign language, we are actually “typing”, or I think a better comparison would be stenography, with hand and finger motions.
It was just a shower thought. I don’t shower though so YMMV.
The image in my head as I was typing was that, if I removed the laptop beneath my fingers, I’d be basically signing in space. Sign language works differently in several distinct ways, but I guess my thought was that, we communicate with computers the same way we communicate with deaf people. I mean we don’t say the same things to them, but we use hand gestures to communicate. When we “speak” to deaf people using sign language, we are actually “typing”, or I think a better comparison would be stenography, with hand and finger motions.
It was just a shower thought. I don’t shower though so YMMV.