Reflections on the 1951 Fitts List: Do Humans Believe Now that Machines Surpass them?

Procedia Manufacturing

Volumn 3, Issue , 2015, Pages 5334-5341

  de Winter, J C F ^a   Hancock, P A ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

clickers; CrowdFlower; crowdsourcing; electronic voting system; Function allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010000280     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23519789     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.promfg.2015.07.641     Document Type: Conference Paper

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