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06/09: Too Many Errors? Warm Up!
In the study, which was conducted at Insurance Office of America's headquarters in Orlando, Fla., each of nine workstations was equipped with a miniature personal environment-sensor for sampling air temperature every 15 minutes. The researchers recorded the amount of time that employees keyboarded and the amount of time they spent making error corrections. Hedge used a new research approach employing software that can synchronize a specific indoor environmental variable, in this case temperature, with productivity.
When the office temperature in a month-long study increased from 68 to 77 degrees Fahrenheit, typing errors fell by 44 percent and typing output jumped 150 percent. Hedge's study was exploring the link between changes in the physical environment and work performance.
"At 77 (25C) degrees Fahrenheit, the workers were keyboarding 100 percent of the time with a 10 percent error rate, but at 68 (20C)degrees, their keying rate went down to 54 percent of the time with a 25 percent error rate," Hedge says. "Temperature is certainly a key variable that can impact performance."
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Oct04/temp.productivity.ssl.html
When the office temperature in a month-long study increased from 68 to 77 degrees Fahrenheit, typing errors fell by 44 percent and typing output jumped 150 percent. Hedge's study was exploring the link between changes in the physical environment and work performance.
"At 77 (25C) degrees Fahrenheit, the workers were keyboarding 100 percent of the time with a 10 percent error rate, but at 68 (20C)degrees, their keying rate went down to 54 percent of the time with a 25 percent error rate," Hedge says. "Temperature is certainly a key variable that can impact performance."
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Oct04/temp.productivity.ssl.html
23/05: Where Typing Speed Matters
Every month we receive several refunds for the online orders for YESOLO on the Keyboard. The reason is simple: fraud.
American innovators, however, are thinking of biological ways to prevent things like that. One of the tricks is to identify the user's typing pattern while he is entering his/her password. They say recognition accuracy is 99 per cent referring to “behavioural biometric.”
This idea is not at all new. The idea first appeared after World War II but all the attempts of implementing it in the 1980s failed.
Most technologists are sceptical about the mass usage of such a system, say, in banks. There are too many questions which arise.
“What about if you’re trained as typist? Do you type the same way as others who learned the same way?”
"Do typing patterns vary?"
Anyway, thorough testing is necessary before even considering this typing recognition option. However, the inventors claim more than 50 customers are already using the system and are quite happy with it. They are mainly small banks and building societies.
Would you trust it? And isn't it the reason to increase your typing speed in such a way that no one can ever copy it?
Read the original article.
American innovators, however, are thinking of biological ways to prevent things like that. One of the tricks is to identify the user's typing pattern while he is entering his/her password. They say recognition accuracy is 99 per cent referring to “behavioural biometric.”
This idea is not at all new. The idea first appeared after World War II but all the attempts of implementing it in the 1980s failed.
Most technologists are sceptical about the mass usage of such a system, say, in banks. There are too many questions which arise.
“What about if you’re trained as typist? Do you type the same way as others who learned the same way?”
"Do typing patterns vary?"
Anyway, thorough testing is necessary before even considering this typing recognition option. However, the inventors claim more than 50 customers are already using the system and are quite happy with it. They are mainly small banks and building societies.
Would you trust it? And isn't it the reason to increase your typing speed in such a way that no one can ever copy it?
Read the original article.
Are you still in doubt whether to switch to Dvorak?
Here is another argument. Latest research makes it possible to recover typed text using audio recording of keystrokes. It means that typing on QWERTY is no longer secure.
Sure, such a trick is well possible for Dvorak. If they think about it.
Full details are available here
Here is another argument. Latest research makes it possible to recover typed text using audio recording of keystrokes. It means that typing on QWERTY is no longer secure.
Sure, such a trick is well possible for Dvorak. If they think about it.
Full details are available here
17/10: More Issues, More Tags!
Writing this blog for a while, I now see what most of readers are actually looking for. From now on, I will try to keep you updated on the current touch typing news from major software and keyboard developpers. So, you can find all the typing news in one place.
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