ExpECT: An expanded error categorisation method for text input

People and Computers XXI HCI.But Not as We Know It - Proceedings of HCI 2007: The 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Kano, Akiyo ^a   Read, Janet C ^a   Dix, Alan ^b   MacKenzie, I Scott ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Children; Error analysis; Error categorization; Keyboards; Text input; Typing error

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; TYPEWRITER KEYBOARDS;

CHILDREN; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; ERROR CATEGORIZATIONS; ERROR TYPES; TEXT INPUT; TYPING ERRORS; VISUAL INSPECTION;

ERRORS;

EID: 84860502302     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14236/ewic/hci2007.15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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