A quantitative model for designing keyboard layout

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 113-125

  Shieh, Kong King ^a   Lin, Chin Chiuan ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; COMPUTER TERMINAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; WRITING;

ADULT; COMPUTER TERMINALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTOR SKILLS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WRITING;

EID: 0033073113     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1999.88.1.113     Document Type: Article

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