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Article #363Re: Urban Legends (was Re: Dvorak Keyboard Layout)
From: Bill Turner
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1989 16:50
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1989 16:50
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> ...The experiments showing > the superiority of the Dvorak keyboard are mainly old, were done by people who > were actively trying to prove that superiority, and are not up to modern > experimental standards. Recent data - I've been told the references by some- > one who works in the field, but I'm afraid I don't have them - show that there > is actually only a small difference in typing speed between Dvorak and Scholes > typists. One study that I know of was done in part by Donald Norman (author of "The Phsychology of Everyday Things" and professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at UCSD) -- the paper is "Why Alphabetic Keyboads Are Not Easy to Use: Keyboard Layout Doesn't Much Matter" by Donald A. Norman and Diane Fisher (Human Factors, vol. 24 no. 5, 1982, pp 509-519) --Bill Turner (bturner@hp-pcd.hp.com) HP Corvallis Information Systems
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