Recently, we were talking about how much use a computer mouse gets here at Anabliss. How far does it travel? How many times is it clicked? How much does your clicking finger ache at the end of a busy week? These were just rhetorical questions for the sake of conversation, but I couldn’t help but wonder.
I searched for “mouse click counter for Mac” to no avail. I searched “carpal tunnel syndrome” and got worried. Then I searched for an app to measure my mouse’s movements and found a program called IOGraphica. It follows your cursor across the screen, creates a circle when your cursor is still and the longer it’s still the larger the circle gets.
I installed the app at work and let it run during a regular day of programming. What was created was very impressive. In a weird way, it’s beautiful. It reminds me of the airline maps in the back of an in-flight magazine.
So what do you think? Does my mouse get a workout or what? Oh, and in case you’re wondering about the big dot on the left… that was lunch.
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Interesting! It reminds me of the eye tracker on how people read content on websites…though there’s definitely no relationship. Thanks for sharing!