RE: "Select" in lieu of other verbs

["Stephen Arrants" <steve -at- mbfbioscience -dot- com>]

When I worked at Microsoft (in Ye Olden Dayes of the 80s) we videotaped
users following instructions on using the mouse. When told "Using the
Microsoft Mouse, click the left mouse control on the OK button on your
computer screen" (such golden prose) most of the users would dutifully
pick up the mouse, run it over the monitor and click the left mouse
button.  Nothing happened.  EPIC FAIL. 

> Gene Kim-Eng
> This would appear to argue for "Touch or press OK."
> 
> BTW, this may be hopelessly out of date, but about
> 20 years ago I worked on a system where we decided
> to replace a light pen interface with a touchscreen
> (CRT, of course).  We ended up using "press," after
> discovering that most people confronted with visual
> buttons on a monitor screen actually did *press*
> them as if they were physical buttons, and if they
> didn't get the expected response pressed the
> screen *harder* on repeat attempts.
> 
> Gene Kim-Eng

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