Assessing design features of virtual keyboards for text entry

Human Factors

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 680-698

  O'Brien, Marita A ^a   Rogers, Wendy A ^a   Fisk, Arthur D ^a   Richman, Mark ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Intelliverse   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

AGE GROUPS; COMBINED EFFECTS; CONSISTENT PERFORMANCE; DESIGN FEATURES; OLDER ADULTS; SALIENT FEATURES; SEARCH TIME; SHAPE DESIGNS; TEXT ENTRY; VIRTUAL KEYBOARDS; VISUAL FEATURES; VISUAL SEARCH;

COMPUTER KEYBOARDS;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INPUT DEVICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPLAY SYSTEM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KEYBOARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL KEYBOARD; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COMPUTER PERIPHERALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WORD PROCESSING;

EID: 52049085786     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872008X312279     Document Type: Article

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