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Touch typing

Known as: Touch typist, ASDF (sequence of letters), Asdfghjkl;' 
Touch typing (also called touch type or touch keyboarding) is typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys. Specifically, a touch typist… 
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Carpal tunnel syndromeComputer accessibilityComputer keyboardDvorak Simplified Keyboard

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Highly Cited
2015
Highly Cited
2015
Touchstroke: Smartphone User Authentication Based on Touch-Typing Biometrics
Smartphones are becoming pervasive and widely used for a large variety of activities from social networking to online shopping… 
2014
2014
ExtendedThumb: a motion-based virtual thumb for improving one-handed target acquisition on touch-screen mobile devices
Screen size of mobile handheld devices such as cellular phones has been increasing, causing the decrease of thumb mobility. It is… 
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Typing on flat glass: examining ten-finger expert typing patterns on touch surfaces
Touch screen surfaces large enough for ten-finger input have become increasingly popular, yet typing on touch screens pales in… 
2009
2009
Expressive typing: a new way to sense typing pressure and its applications
In this paper, we propose a new way for measuring key typing pressure when using off-the-shelf laptop computers. Accelerometers… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
A reduced QWERTY keyboard for mobile text entry
In this paper we describe a specialized keyboard for text entry that maps four rows of a standard keyboard onto the home row… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Expert chording text entry on the Twiddler one-handed keyboard
Previously we demonstrated that after 400 minutes of practice, ten novices averaged over 26 words per minute (wpm) for text entry… 
2004
2004
Down the Wrong Path : Path Dependence , Increasing Returns , and Historical
Does the concept of path dependence provide a plausible theoretical framework for historical institutionalism? Practitioners of… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
An empirical investigation of the novice experience with soft keyboards
An experiment with 12 participants tested text entry rates on two sizes of soft keyboards with either a Qwerty layout or a layout… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Standards, Modularity, and Innovation: The Case of Medical Practice
Most economic analyses of path creation and dependence are stories about how standards create network externalities - and thus… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Identity Verification Through Keyboard Characteristics
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