Typing With a Two-Hand Chord Keyboard: Will the QWERTY Become Obsolete?

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1988, Pages 601-609

  Gopher, Daniel ^a   Raij, David ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER INTERFACES--HUMAN FACTORS; COMPUTER PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT--TERMINALS; SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND CYBERNETICS--COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

COGNITIVE STRUCTURE; QWERTY KEYBOARD; TOUCH-TYPING SKILL; TWO-HAND CHORD KEYBOARD;

TYPEWRITERS;

EID: 0024035509     PISSN: 00189472     EISSN: 21682909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/21.17378     Document Type: Article

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