Theory: Typing certain words on the QWERTY keyboard have a greater psychological impact than others.
My first thought regarding this "right and left brain" theory, started when I saw more and more people preferring to text over having face to face conversations. Sure, some of that might be explained by how introverted our society is becoming. But the question is, why are we becoming so introverted? A human response to technology has always interested me from an early age. Why do children relate to computers so easily? Is it truly that they are just so young and teachable as people suppose?
Currently, I am studying how the QWERTY keyboard originally was invented to see if there is any relationship at its inception to this theory. If so this would provide greater reason for proving the theory. Even if there is no relationship, it could be one of those wonderful natural numbers that Albert Einstein said simply were too pretty to not have a divine author.
On the surface the theory seems to show that there does exist an emotional connection to words that end predominately on the right hand... IE left brain. Also one's choice of the right or left shift key, and other individual choices may be related. Why do people use the right or left keys more? Is it only functional that we have the two shift keys? Does the use of certain keys show which side of the brain a person prefers? Does this explain why some people love to type and others hate it? I would submit that some people have been typing as a form of therapy already. Both as a way to get feelings out, as in Journal writing, yet with greater impact due to the use of both sides of the brain.
As an example, the word "Happy" is mostly on the right hand. Following the theory then, it is subconsciously processed by the left brain or logical. So its emotional response has much less impact then the word "Hate." Hate, following the theory, has a massive emotional impact when typed. The word "Love" is also interesting. For example, It starts logical and ends emotional. Interesting also is the fact that when I type the word with a capital "L" it used the left shift key. Changing the balance of the word to be Emotional. This balance is also related to the impact of words. Why do people capitalize letters in the middle of typing? Either way, the word "love" seems to have a VERY high impact as it uses both sides of the brain evenly or with emphasis when capitalized to the emotional.
There may be nothing here. The whole theory may be the imaginings of a Technology nut... but It will be interesting to study.
- Calvin
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ReplyDeleteThe QWERTY keyboard in s an interesting study in human technology interface. This keyboard layout came from a specific effort to slow down typists on the new technology of typewriters. Early mechanical typewriters tended to jam when typists went too fast. So they studied which letters were used most on put them under the weakest fingers and furthest away. In spite of that, a good typist can still do 80-100 words a minute. An alternative keyboard is the Dvorak. It puts the most used letters closest to the strongest fingers. Must less strain, much faster typing, very slow adoption to the market because everyone is already trained on QWERTY.