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Why Alphabetic Keyboards Are Not Easy to Use: Keyboard Layout Doesn't Much Matter
Donald A. Norman,Diane Fisher +1 more
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It is not worthwhile to use alphabetic keyboards for novice typists, nor to change to the Dvorak layout for experts, but keyboards can probably be improved, but only through radical redesign of the present physical key configuration.Abstract:
These studies demonstrate the inferiority of alphabetically organized keyboards as compared with a randomly organized keyboard and the standard Sholes (qwerty) keyboard. Use of the alphabetic keybo...read more
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