Quite recently the inevitability of keyboard decline took hold among the Big Players. Already, hand gestures are used in several marketed cellular telephones. After Steve demonstrated that it works, Bill himself recently admitted that people should and will be interacting with computers by using gestures. Other are lining up to join the party. Gestures are hot!

Glancing, though a close relative to gestures, is fundamentally different and it is a far superior idea.

Glances were never before considered for communicative purpose. Glancing opens a new field in human-machine interaction. The major strength of glancing lays in swiftness and shortness of motions required to operate the pad. Is the human hand capable of acquiring such a skill? The answer is a confident - Yes.

Learning glancing starts by practicing the basic imaginary template. The freshly memorized motor skill is gradually refined through everyday use. With experience, the motions become instinctively automatic; new shortcuts and new ways to operate the Glancing Pad are discovered and established. Expert users will quickly develop the skill of mini-glances: because shorter motions are faster, this will further improve the speed of encoding.

With persistent training, our hand musculature, as well as the controlling centers in the brain, will adapt to such diminutive motions. Although glances may be easily mastered by anyone, the most spectacular performers will be the younger users, benefiting by the early training.

Single-handed use of Glancing Pad was heralded as its primary advantage, but the pad might be operated with both hands as well. Dividing the job between hands may further improve the encoding speed.
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