Standing at a kiosk: Effects of key size and spacing on touch screen numeric keypad performance and user preference

Ergonomics

Volumn 47, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 1406-1423

  Colle, Herbert A ^a   Hiszem, Keith J ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human computer interaction; Key size; Key spacing; Keyboards; Keypads; Kiosks; Touch screens

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER KEYBOARDS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERSONNEL RATING;

KEY ENTRY; NUMERIC KEYPADS;

ERGONOMICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; RESPONSE TIME; SATISFACTION; STANDING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMPUTER TERMINALS; DATA DISPLAY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 5644227587     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130410001724228     Document Type: Article

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