The Keystroke-Level Model for User Performance Time with Interactive Systems

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 1980, Pages 396-410

  Card, Stuart K ^a   Moran, Thomas P ^a   Newell, Allen ^b  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive psychology; ergonomics; human factors; human computer interaction; human computer interface; systems design; user model; user performance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0019035308     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/358886.358895     Document Type: Article

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