Measuring errors in text entry tasks: An application of the levenshtein string distance statistic

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 319-320

  William Soukoreff, R ^a   Scott MacKenzie, I ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Error rate; Levenshtein minimum string distance; Text entry

Indexed keywords

ERROR RATE; KEYSTROKES PER CHARACTERS; LEVENSHTEIN MINIMUM STRING DISTANCE; MEASURING ERRORS; NATURAL INTERACTIONS; TEXT ENTRY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ERRORS;

EID: 84869391409     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/634067.634256     Document Type: Conference Paper

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