On-line communities for RSI?
Submitted by jsachs177 on Mon, 03/17/2008 - 05:01.
Does anyone know of an active web site, mailing list, or other forum for people concerned with RSI -- all types of issues, not just speech recognition?
By "active" I mean that there's a critical mass of participants which yields the benefits expected from an online community: effective mutual support and sharing of information and experience.
I've done some looking, and came up empty. There are a few Yahoo groups related to this subject, but they have few members and little traffic. I found one web site which appears to be sponsored by a physician, and it looked promising, but nothing I posted there got any response.
Google “RSI forum”
All you have to do is Google “RSI forum” and
you should come up with lots of RSI related forums. You might additionally
check out the other speech recognition forums because you're probably going
to find half or more of your solutions in the speech recognition community.
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The community you want is
The community you want is Sorehand
http://www.ucsf.edu/sorehand/
Judy
Thank you, Judy. I'll check
Thank you, Judy. I'll check it out.
Lunis, perhaps when I said that I have done some looking, I should have given details about where I looked. That is, if you'll pardon the expression, a no-brainer. I'm sure that useful information was buried somewhere in the thousands of matches that I got on each of the searches I tried, but I was not able to sift it out.
Please don't take this wrong; I appreciate your effort to help, but the way you phrased your message was unfortunate, and came across as patronizing. I think you can assume that most people who make it to this forum have heard of Google, and know how to use it. When you respond to a request like this one, it would be thoughtful to at least consider the possibility that the OP is a person with a genuine problem, and not just an ignoramus.
You're welcome, Jonathan.
You're welcome, Jonathan. Sorehand isn't at its most active right now but is well established and large, and its web pages are useful.
Judy
I 'second' the Sorehand
I 'second' the Sorehand list. Very informed people there. I haven't been on it in a LONG time, but it helped me with a lot of info "back when".
Another place with more is in our "offsite resources" area here on Speech Computing. There are several links of RSI sources (including Sorehand) at: http://www.speechcomputing.com/disabilityrelated
I've never noticed how many people use the 'offsite resources' area, but it has some pretty good sites/links in there. Let me know of any problems!
the livejournal community
the livejournal community RSI_support isn't as active as I wish it were -- lately it seems to average about one post a month. But there is definitely a helpful user community with diverse opinions about the best ways to create and live with RSI. It would be great if you joined, because the more people join who want an active community the more active it will become.