Hard lessons: Effort-inducing interfaces benefit spatial learning

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1571-1580

  Cockburn, Andy ^a   Kristensson, Per Ola ^b   Alexander, Jason ^a   Zhai, Shumin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Gesture stroke; Learning; Pen input; Skill acquisition; Spatial memory; Text entry; Training

Indexed keywords

GESTURE RECOGNITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PERSONNEL TRAINING;

GESTURE STROKE; SKILL ACQUISITION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TEXT ENTRY;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 35348835523     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1240624.1240863     Document Type: Conference Paper

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