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Cognitive Aspects of Skilled Typewriting

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  • © 1983

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Editors:
  1. William E. Cooper

    1. Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
      Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • William E. Cooper
    Pages 1-38

  3. A Glossary of Terms Including a Classification of Typing Errors

    • Donald R. Gentner, Jonathan T. Grudin, Serge Larochelle, Donald A. Norman, David E. Rumelhart
    Pages 39-43

  4. Studies of Typing from the LNR Research Group

    • Donald A. Norman, David E. Rumelhart
    Pages 45-65

  5. A Comparison of Skilled and Novice Performance in Discontinuous Typing

    • Serge Larochelle
    Pages 67-94

  6. Keystroke Timing in Transcription Typing

    • Donald R. Gentner
    Pages 95-120

  7. Error Patterns in Novice and Skilled Transcription Typing

    • Jonathan T. Grudin
    Pages 121-143

  8. Skilled Typing: A Characterization Based on the Distribution of Times Between Responses

    • John Long, Ian Nimmo-Smith, Andy Whitefield
    Pages 145-195

  9. Time, Information, and the Various Spans in Typewriting

    • Gordon D. Logan
    Pages 197-224

  10. Determinants of Interkey Times in Typing

    • David J. Ostry
    Pages 225-246

  11. Mirror-Image Movements in Typing

    • Kevin G. Munhall, David J. Ostry
    Pages 247-257

  12. Actively Learning To Use a Word Processor

    • John M. Carroll, Robert L. Mack
    Pages 259-281

  13. Knowledge of Word Frequency as an Aid for Text Editing

    • Susan F. Ehrlich, Kristina Damon, William E. Cooper
    Pages 283-304

  14. Certain Problems Associated with the Design of Input Keyboards for Japanese Writing

    • Hisao Yamada
    Pages 305-407

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 409-417
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This volume marks the 75th anniversary of the publication of William Book's 1908 The Psychology of Skill, in which typewriting received its first large-scale treatment from a psychological standpoint. As Book realized early on, this form of human behavior is particularly well suited to testing psychological theories of complex motor skill and its acquisition, present­ ing as it does a task that richly engages cognitive and motor components of programming, yet involves a form of response output that can be readily quantified. Now that typewriting is practiced so widely in workday circumstances, studying this activity offers the additional prospect of practical applicability. Until recently, relatively few studies had been conducted on the psychology of typewriting. One might speculate that this dearth of interest stemmed in part from the fact that researchers themselves rarely undertook the activity, delegating it instead to the secretarial pool. Psychological research on piano playing has produced a literature more sizable than the one on typewriting, yet the latter activity has probably been practiced for many more total human hours in this century. But contemporary developments in word processing technology have moved the typewriter into the researcher's office, and in recent years interest in accompanying psychological issues has grown.

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  • Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

    William E. Cooper

  • Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA

    William E. Cooper

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