A Method of Analyzing Personal Computer Use in an Application Environment

Abstract

This paper describes a program for the IBM Personal Computer (PC) which runs in the background to record and time-stamp keystrokes as operators use real PC applications. The value of the program as a human factors research tool is discussed. In addition to this, an example of a study using the program to estimate the frequency of acquisition of the Backspace and Enter keys in PC applications and a comparison of two IBM keyboards are described.

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