One-handed touch typing on a QWERTY keyboard

Human-Computer Interaction

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-27

  Matias, Edgar ^a  

^a Matias Corporation   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTERS; DESIGN; ERROR ANALYSIS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; SUBJECTIVE TESTING;

COMPACT COMPUTERS; ONE HANDED TYPING TECHNIQUE; QWERTY KEYBOARD; TOUCH TYPISTS;

COMPUTER KEYBOARDS;

EID: 0029775748     PISSN: 07370024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327051hci1101_1     Document Type: Article

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