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Aucb.757 fa.editor-p utcsrgv!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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