Observations on the relationship between key strike force and typing speed

American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1109-1114

  Sommerich, Carolyn M ^a   Marras, William S ^b   Parnianpour, Mohamad ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

data entry; ergonomics; keyboard; word processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; ERGONOMICS; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MANUAL LABOR; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATION; VELOCITY;

EID: 0030458394     PISSN: 00028894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15428119691014198     Document Type: Article

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