{"id":4277,"date":"2010-02-02T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T17:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4277"},"modified":"2011-02-17T16:30:49","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:30:49","slug":"ipad-ergonomics-may-be-harmful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/02\/02\/ipad-ergonomics-may-be-harmful\/","title":{"rendered":"iPad ergonomics may be harmful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4278\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/02\/iPad-and-Steve-Jobs-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"iPad and Steve Jobs\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Apple&#8217;s ballyhooed new iPad (and other e-readers like Kindle and Nook) can eventually lighten the load of student backpacks.\u00a0 That&#8217;s good.\u00a0 But Sargent College Professor <a title=\"Karen Jacobs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/academics\/faculty\/ot-programs\/karen-jacobs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Karen Jacobs<\/a>, who researches how such gagets challenge human capabilities, fears the touch-screen iPad may lead to some unintended harmful ergonomic problems.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;In the case of the iPad, which has a completely touch surface, students will be using many different hand\/wrist positions that place them in awkward postures.\u00a0 Students are already reporting discomfort with small 2&#215;3-inch touch pads, so we can imagine what an entire touch screen will cause in discomfort.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Karen Jacobs, 617-353-7516, <a href=\"mailto:kjacobs@bu.edu\">kjacobs@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s ballyhooed new iPad (and other e-readers like Kindle and Nook) can eventually lighten the load of student backpacks.\u00a0 That&#8217;s good.\u00a0 But Sargent College Professor Karen Jacobs, who researches how such gagets challenge human capabilities, fears the touch-screen iPad may lead to some unintended harmful ergonomic problems. &#8220;In the case of the iPad, which has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2389,2388,2387,1560,2390],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4277"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4281,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions\/4281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}