Building and testing optimized keyboards for specific text entry

Human Factors

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 279-287

  Francis, Gregory ^a,b   Oxtoby, Claire ^a,c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIATION; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; TEXT PROCESSING;

KEYBOARD DESIGNS; KEYBOARDS; TEXT ENTRY;

COMPUTER KEYBOARDS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; KEYBOARD; LEARNING; PREDICTION; TIME;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WRITING;

EID: 33745952165     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872006777724390     Document Type: Article

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