Recent developments in text-entry error rate measurement

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1425-1428

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

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Error rate; Minimum string distance; Text entry

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; ERROR METRICS; ERROR RATE; ERROR RATE ANALYSIS; MINIMUM STRING DISTANCE; SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION; TEXT ENTRY;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ERROR ANALYSIS;

EID: 84876781866     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/985921.986081     Document Type: Conference Paper

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