Thank you for raising your concerns.Perceptions of noise are subjective, reflecting all sorts of factors at the time of the complaint. It doesn’t stop noisy typing from being irritating but a moment of reflection on whether the typing is really noisy or whether it seems so because the area is especially quiet, or you aren’t feeling very well, or you are feeling sleepy and are easily distracted may be worth balancing out.
The University has
deliberately invested in “quieter” keyboards for the silent areas of Learning Resources.
They cannot exclude all sound.
Someone else’s typing
style may reflect their thought patterns and expression so are inevitable as a
part of their research process. It goes without saying that aggressive typing
may impact on finger and hand joints in time. None the less when someone is in
full flow they won’t be aware that their typing is noisy.
2 days ago the
Guardian ran an article “Death to noisy typists!”
the newspaper’s
suggestion for polite notices has been ineffectual in the past at University of
Bedfordshire. Polite notices become litter and/or wallpaper so no-one notices
them.
May I suggest that you
book a PC in a corner of the Silent area of Learning Resources so you can limit
your study partners
or you invest in noise cancelling headphones
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