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From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (Industrial Poet)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
Subject: Re: ap, Windows BASIC
Message-ID: <e369411w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: 28 Jun 91 13:02:13 GMT
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gorman@acsu.buffalo.edu (anne-marie k gorman) writes [about telephone
keypads]:
>                                                                Their experi-
> ments showed that the 'upside-down' layout minimized errors, even though it
> was different from teh 'standard' adding-machine style layout.

I think that's probably because it slows people down; which is also a good
idea from the telephone company's point of view (here in the UK we are only
now getting rid of the last mechanical exchanges.)


mathew