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#Theory I find there to be four theoretical topics which seem to be appropriate to discuss in this section. These include the following:

  1. /Typewriter-Histoy
  2. /Keyboard-Layout-Theory
  3. /Information-Theory
  4. /Object-Anthropology

##Typewriter Histoy This is where "factual" history of machines are discussed and citations are stored. Much of what we are trying to improve upon is because of historical anomalies. /Typewriter-Histoy

##Keyboard Layout Theory This is the theory which applies to what should go where on a keyboard layout. This theory motivates methodologies. That is, because we hold things to be true in our theory we count numbers and actions a certain way. /Keyboard-Layout-Theory

##Information Theory This theory talks about how information is processed. This section also contains discussions about the cognitive processes in typing. /Information-Theory

###Fitts' Law The work of several people fit in this section. But primarily the work of Fitts.

####Fitts

  • Fitts, Paul M. 1954. The information capacity of the human motor system in controlling the amplitude of movement. Journal of Experimental Psychology 47.6: 381-91.
  • Fitts, Paul M. 1992. The Information Capacity of the Human Motor System in Controlling the Amplitude of Movement. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 121.3: 262-9.

####Others

  • Bootsma, R. J., L. Fernandez & D. Mottet. 2004. Behind Fitts’ law: kinematic patterns in goal-directed movements. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 61.6: 811-21. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1071581904001065
  • Zhai, Shumin. 2004. Characterizing computer input with Fitts’ law parameters — The information and non-information aspects of pointing. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 61.6: 791-809. <Accessed: 09. May 2014>. http://shuminzhai.com/papers/FittsThroughputFinalManuscript.pdf
  • MacKenzie, I. Scott & William Buxton. 1992. Extending Fitts' law to two-dimensional tasks. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '92, 219-26. New York: ACM.
  • MacKenzie, I. Scott. 1991. Fitts' law as a performance model in human-computer interaction. Ph.D dissertation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  • MacKenzie, I. Scott. 1992. Fitts' law as a research and design tool in human-computer interaction. Human-Computer Interaction 7, 91-139.
  • MacKenzie, I. Scott & Poika Isokoski. 2008. Fitts' Throughput and the Speed-Accuracy Tradeoff. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems – CHI 2008, 1633-6. New York: ACM.
  • Soukoreff, R. William & I. Scott MacKenzie. 2009. An Informatic Rationale for the Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off. Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (San Antonio, TX, USA - October 2009), 2890-6. Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE Press.
  • Soukoreff, R. William & I. Scott MacKenzie. 2002. Using Fitts' Law to Model Key Repeat Time in Text Entry Models. Paper presented at Graphics Interface 2002, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, (27-29 May 2002). <Accessed: 16. April 2014>. http://www.yorku.ca/mack/gi02-poster.html
  • Toomim, Michael, Travis Kriplean, Claus Pörtner & James A. Landay. 2011. Utility of Human-Computer Interactions: Toward a Science of Preference Measurement. CHI 2011. ACM.

###Cognitive aspects of typing There are two resources which fit here:

  • The various works of Saul Sternberg
  • The work of William E. Cooper:
  • Cooper, William E. (ed.) 1983. Cognitive Aspects of Skilled Typewriting. New York, Heidelberg, Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

##Object Anthropology This theory talks about how humans interact with objects. Objects like the keyboard. Here we are asking the question: How does the keyboard layout behave in society? That is, how do humans interact and react to the keyboard layout?

/Object-Anthropology