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Must We Click To Interact?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the step-away-from-the-mouse-button dept.

Rockgod writes, "Here is an interesting experiment (warning: heavy Flash!!) that urges you not to click anywhere in the site yet wants you to navigate through it. It's an exploration of the clicking habit of computer users and aims to help understand why it is so hard not to click." The site records the mouse movements of each visitor and offers you a sample of them to replay. Doing so is a little unnerving, like peering into people's minds.

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  1. I could have got first post... by mrogers · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...but I was practising not clicking

    1. Re:I could have got first post... by Dekortage · · Score: 3, Funny

      So is this the difference between a clickless site where you just point, and a pointless site where you just click?

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  2. Heck, never mind clicking... by AEton · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...why use the mouse at all?

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  3. Did Steve Jobs put you up to this?! by Max+Threshold · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is an Apple product feasibility study, isn't it? Is the next Mac going to have a zero-button mouse?