Number entry interfaces and their effects on error detection

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6949 LNCS, Issue PART 4, 2011, Pages 178-185

  Oladimeji, Patrick ^a   Thimbleby, Harold ^a   Cox, Anna ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

data entry; error detection; number entry

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INTERACTION; DEATH RATES; INTERFACE DESIGNS; MEDICAL DEVICES; NUMBER ENTRY; NUMERIC VALUES; SERIAL INTERFACES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DATA ACQUISITION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); POPULATION STATISTICS; BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; ERROR DETECTION; ERRORS;

ERROR DETECTION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 80052793416     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23768-3_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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