Aucb.757
fa.editor-p
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:editor-people
Tue Mar 23 10:24:01 1982
Free use data
>From ZIMMER@DEC-MARLBORO Tue Mar 23 10:21:04 1982
Here is the abstract to a paper entitled "How Do People Really Use Text
Editors?" by John Whiteside, Norman Archer, Dennis Wixon, and Michael Good.
This paper will appear in the ACM-SIGOA Conference on Office Information
Systems in Philadelphia, June 21-23.  I thought that Editor-People readers
might like a sneak preview - we don't have reprints available yet.

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Keystroke statistics were collected on editing systems while people performed
their normal work.  Knowledge workers used an experimental editor, and
secretaries used a word processor.  Results show a consistent picture of free
use patterns in both settings.  Of the total number of keystrokes, text entry
accounted for approximately 1/2, cursor movement for about 1/4, deletion for
about 1/8, and all other functions for the remaining 1/8.  Analysis of
keystroke transitions and editing states is also presented.  Implications for
past research, editor design, keyboard layout, and benchmark tests are
discussed.
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