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- Students
- People who work desk jobs
- People who use laptop on trains/flights, visit clients throughout the workday, or have small workspaces, such as classroom desks/cubicles

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Wrist pain can be debilitating. Not being able to participate in occupations due to wrist pain can decrease one's mental health, ambition, and overall wellbeing

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Useful for those with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, people with other hand injuries, and can be used as a preventative measure for students and adults

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- There is little to no room on desks to fit both an ergonomic keyboard and their laptop, leading students to "power through the pain"
- If your wrist injury is left untreated it can lead to long term effects.  Pain can last for months, years, or one's lifetime. Working through the pain, or ‘shaking it off’ can cause more damage to already injured ligaments and structures.

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These keyboards are designed to keep hands and wrists in a natural position for typing. The hands are directed apart from one another with resting positions for the wrists. This reduces the stress on the wrists, forearms, elbows, shoulders and neck.

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- Use of this keyboard will reduce work place stress while also limiting the stress physically

- Individuals often strain their hands while using keyboards, resulting in wrist pain and related problems like carpal tunnel syndrome.
-Use of ergonomics strengthens your muscles, decreases pain, and improves blood flow.
- It also enhances mental insight, increases awareness, and improves your mood.

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Fixed-split keyboards reduce awkward postures and overall pain and discomfort as well as improving the functional status of participants with pre-existing hand and wrist pain.
Research has shown the benefit of the fixed-split keyboard design in reducing the incidence of new cases of carpal tunnel syndrome and other symptoms.

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-Making a keyboard that is space friendly
-Ergonomic Keyboards must be used in front of or next to the laptop, but cannot be laid on top of the preexisting keyboard - creating a space and usage restriction
-Even though egonomic keyboard already exist, we want to make the keyboard to be adaptive to already existing devices such as laptops and iPads

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Top 5 reasons why you need an ergonomic keyboard. Kensington. (n.d.). Retrieved February 22, 2023, from https://www.kensington.com/news/ergonomic-workspace-blog/top-5-reasons-why-you-need-an-ergonomic-keyboard/#:~:text=Reduce%20Workplace%20Stress&text=People%20often%20strain%20their%20hands,awareness%2C%20and%20improves%20your%20mood

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Top 5 reasons why you need an ergonomic keyboard.
Kensington. (n.d.). Retrieved February 22, 2023, from https://www.kensington.com/news/ergonomic-workspace-blog/top-5-reasons-why-you-need-an-ergonomic-keyboard/#:~:text=Reduce%20Workplace%20Stress&text=People%20often%20strain%20their%20hands,awareness%2C%20and%20improves%20your%20mood

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McLoone, et. al., (2009). Design and evaluation of a curved computer keyboard. Ergonomics, 52(12), 1529–1539. https://doi.org/10.1080/00140130903215321