Temple University launches ergonomic computing pilot

Computer keyboards can be so much more than flat and cramped.
Temple University, boasting among the city’s largest IT infrastructure, has launched a pilot program to introduce ergonomic computer equipment and accessories to their students, faculty and staff, according to the college.
“Project Ergo” has brought 100 joint-friendly computer pieces, including wave keyboards, trackball mice, arm rests and large monitors, to the school’s sprawling 75,000 square-foot Main Campus TECH Center.
Students, faculty and staff are asked to use the devices through the end of the academic year to provide feedback on what pieces would be most used and liked.
The details of some items being used to make computing a more comfortable affair on North Broad Street, after the jump.

• A gold touch, vertically-adjusted keyboard to allow the user’s hands to assume a more natural “handshake” position when typing
• A wave keyboard, as seen above, which is meant to offer a similar benefit in a fixed position.
• A trackball mouse meant to mimic the natural contours of the hand, in which the user only moves his fingers.
• A quill or vertical mouse, which keeps the user’s hand in that more natural “handshake” position and guarding against detrimental wrist flexing in the vertical and horizontal planes.
• 30-inch computer monitors that can be adjusted to a vertical or horizontal position.