Expertise in Typewriting.

Abstract

Expert typists have acquired a highly practiced motor skill. A typical professional typist has accumulated over 10,000 hours of practice. Expert typists are much faster than novices, but in addition, their performance is qualitatively different in many ways from novice performance. During acquisition of typing skill, there is a general shift from cognitive to motor limits on performance. Expert typing is characterized by parallel mental processes that overlap in time, overlapped hand and finger movements, a decreased load on conscious cognitive resources, and reduced variability fo the interstroke intervals. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA142865

Entities

People

  • D. R. Gentner

Organizations

  • University of California, San Diego

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Science
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Computers
  • Contrast
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Information Processing
  • Learning
  • Mental Processes
  • Perception
  • Psychology
  • Reaction Time
  • Simulations
  • Software Development
  • Students
  • Training

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