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Ergonomic keyboarding with the Svalboard: a half-year retrospective
My background § Even before I started pressing buttons for a living I was always a pretty heavy computer user. When I was about 18 I started experiencing symptoms of RSI.
The promise is simple: increase typing speed through a combination of minimizing finger movement and stenography-style chording (albeit with a theory designed to have a shallower learning curve, basically just mashing all the letters of the word at once). I’d never bothered to get set up with a graphical configurator before, reasoning that I’m perfectly capable of writing a bit of C so I might as well avail myself of the full power of the firmware, but the qualitative difference it made, especially as I was still getting used to the board and ‘dialled in’ to make my everyday tasks comfortable, was phenomenal. Relatedly, its many moving parts make it infeasible to transport around easily; Morgan sells a blessed travel case, but it’s a chunky thing, and doesn’t lend itself to throwing in a backpack, nor (due to its positioning sensitivity) would I really want to use a Svalboard on the go on a train or aeroplane.
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