Text entry using soft keyboards

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 235-244

  Mackenzie, I Scott ^a   Zhang, Shawn X ^a   Soukoreff, R William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER KEYBOARDS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

TEXT ENTRY;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 0032634442     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014492999118995     Document Type: Article

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