Clavier d'ordinateurUn clavier d’ordinateur est une interface homme-machine munie de touches permettant à l'utilisateur d'entrer dans l'ordinateur une séquence de données, notamment textuelle. Les touches sont généralement des boutons en plastique reliés chacun à un interrupteur électronique. D'un point de vue électronique, elles sont similaires aux boutons d’une souris, d’une télécommande ou d’une manette de console de jeu, mais d'un point de vue pratique, elles ont des qualités propres à leur fonction : un symbole, une lettre, un chiffre, un mot ou une sont habituellement imprimées ou gravées sur la touche, autrement appelée Keycap, afin de permettre à l'utilisateur de saisir les caractères, pour écrire du texte ou pour exécuter une fonction particulière.
Clavier MicrosoftMicrosoft has designed and sold a variety of ergonomic keyboards for computers. The oldest is the Microsoft Natural Keyboard, released in 1994, the company's first computer keyboard. The newest models are the Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard (2013), the Surface Ergonomic Keyboard (2016), and the Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard (2019). In general, ergonomic keyboards are designed to keep the user's arms and wrists in a near-neutral position, which means the slant angle (the lateral rotation angle for the keys in each half relative to the axis of the home row in a conventional keyboard) is approximately 10 to 12.
MaltronPCD Maltron Ltd, trading as Maltron, is a manufacturer of ergonomic special-needs keyboards. It was founded by South African-born inventor Lillian Malt and manufacturer Stephen Hobday. Maltron specialises in making keyboards for the prevention and etiological (root cause) treatment of repetitive strain injury. Maltron manufactures several models of keyboard, in varying levels of adaptation.
Repetitive strain injuryA repetitive strain injury (RSI) is an injury to part of the musculoskeletal or nervous system caused by repetitive use, vibrations, compression or long periods in a fixed position. Other common names include repetitive stress injury, repetitive stress disorders, cumulative trauma disorders (CTDs), and overuse syndrome. Some examples of symptoms experienced by patients with RSI are aching, pulsing pain, tingling and extremity weakness, initially presenting with intermittent discomfort and then with a higher degree of frequency.
