Understanding sources of user variability in computer-based data entry performance

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 282-293

  Czaja, Sara J ^a   Sharit, Joseph ^a   Nair, Sankaran ^a   Rubert, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE;

AGE EFFECTS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 0032165375     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: 13623001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014492998119355     Document Type: Article

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