In the age of technology, humans are constantly relying on electronics for simple tasks in everyday life. These tasks include research, simple subtraction, and in some cases, communication. In result, computers and electronics play a major role in lives and in most jobs. These jobs are mostly white-collar jobs or jobs that usually take place in an office. Most of these jobs heavily rely on typing skills ranging from 35-200 words per minute. When employers are hiring, they don't see it as a requirement to type in one way.
The purpose of this experiment was to find out which of the two typing methods is the most efficient; touch or combined. An observation made about the topic is that the touch-typing method is very common and favored because
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After gathering the materials, the researcher proceeded to the first step of the experiment. The first step of the experiment was to explain to the test subject that they will be completing a warm-up exercise and an official typing test two times using the combined method first followed by the touch typing method. After they understood what they needed to accomplish, the researcher had them go to http://typing-speed-test.aoeu.eu/, which consists of warm-up that counts their characters per minute. Once the webpage has loaded, the researcher instructed them to begin the warm-up using the combined typing method. After they finished the combined typing portion, the researcher had them complete the same warm-up exercise, but with the touch typing method. Once they had completed their warm-up, the researcher reminded them that they will be taking the official typing test two times. Next, the researcher instructed them to go to http://www.typingtest.com/index-v1a.html, which consists of a typing test that counts their words per minute. Once the webpage has loaded, the researcher had them modify the settings to “Aesop’s fables” in English for one minute. After they modified the settings, the researcher had them start the test using the combined typing method. When they completed the …show more content…
This was proven to be correct. The female participants typed at an average of sixty-two words per minute for the combined typing method, which had seven words more than the males’ average of fifty-five words per minute. However, when females used the touch-typing method, their average of fifty words per minute was six words less than the males’ average of fifty-six words per minute. The experiment was based on three trials and according to the results; the combined typing method proved to be most efficient for its average of fifty-nine words per minute. It was six words more than the touch-typing method that had an average of fifty-three words per minute. Although it is not a huge significance, it does not change the fact that the combined typing method was faster. In this experiment there was an error. The main error was that some test subjects were not familiar with the touch-typing method, affecting the results. A different approach that can be taken in the future is whether keyboards are a factor when typing. Another factor that should be changed is the amount of people and trials. The amount of people and trials should increase so that the results may be more accurate and reliable. What was discovered in the experiment is that even though most people use the touch-typing method, it does not guarantee an increase in speed compared to the combined
Though many kinds of physical work don’t require a high literacy level, more reading occurs in the blue-collar workplace than is generally thought, from manuals and catalogues to work orders and invoices, to lists, labels,and forms.
Early dominance meant not only that QWERTY became the standard, but that it stayed that way too. The layout became locked in by the quasi-irreversibility of investments in training touch-typists and in equipment, and by the high costs of conversion (1). In fact, numerous attempts to implement improvements to the layout have met with failure.
Using eye tracking as a input device in human-computer interaction is proving to be extremely useful to severely disabled users. Users in this category may only be capable of controlling their eyes, and are in need of a method to communicate. Using eye tracking as a pointing and gesture input device, users in this category are able to use computer interfaces and communicate in ways that was never before possible. Disabled users are able to make selections and even type text through the use of a keyboard display using dwell time as a selector, or through the use of a set of gestures corresponding to the alphabet.
”Books will soon be obsolete in the schools...Scholars will soon be instructed through the eye. It is possible to touch every branch of human knowledge with the motion picture” (Thomas Edison). An idea that was destined for failure has now been made into the key source to get students and teachers more interacted while in a classroom setting. Tablets such as the iPad and the Microsoft surface have made this idea possible, showing students that there is another alternative to the traditional method which would be a printed version of the textbook. Tablets are portable computers that use a touchscreen as its primary input device, meaning that both keyboard and mouse are both physically located on the screen. Early Tablets were built to be used with a pen, today however tablets can be used with just one finger or multiple fingers with the support of multi touch input. Tablet have had a positive input on society especially students in school that are looking to get their work done in an engaging way and, not by moving a pen or pencil like it’s been done for decades. Tablets have proven to be the better tool for learning among students.
Multitasking, a practice used by many people to complete multiple tasks at once, seems beneficial to the user, but recent research shows that this practice causes more distractions. Alexandra Samuel argues in her essay, “‘Plug in Better’: A Manifesto”, that by getting rid of all of the distractions caused by multitasking, the time spent on the computer can be used more efficiently. As businesses in today’s world are using computers to help employees be more efficient in the workplace, each worker should only have to handle one task at a time to maximize their efficiency. Richard Restak argues in his essay, “Attetion Deficit: The Brain Syndrome of Our Era,” that by not diverting a person’s attention to multiple activities at once, such person
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Today we live in a society where everything is seconds away from us. With the advances and affordability of quality technology, you would be hard pressed to find someone without a smartphone, laptop, or tablet, possibly all at the same time. Because of the accessibility we find that, in our tech-savvy culture, multitasking has not just become an art form of sorts, but rather an expectation. In the article “Multitasking Can Make You Lose…Um…Focus,” Alina Tugend sets out to explore the idea that although multitasking appears to show productivity, it could be doing the opposite. Throughout her article, Tugend uses studies done by neurologists and psychologists to show how in a world that sees multitasking as an expectation it has actually made us less efficient. She proposes, through studies, that although you might be working on multiple tasks it is as if you’re playing tennis with multiple balls (Tugend, 725).
In the article “Technology in the Classroom: Beginnings and Endings”, Mary Ann Matras suggests that, “The pencil is still the most efficient tool”. Many people will agree with her argument because students have learned that way for many years and it has worked. It is also a common fact that when a person writes something down with a pen or pencil they are more likely to remember the information rather than typing it. Author, Mary Ann Matras continues to explain more about why the pencil is a powerful tool, ” When a student can use a pencil to do a calculation faster than and as well as, he or she can do it with a computer or calculator, then the tool for the job should be the pencil,” Mary Ann Matras states. Another issue that classrooms have with technology is that it takes away class time. If a student can do their work as fast as a computer than they don’t need the computer, it is better for them to work it out by themselves. Also, if it takes the same amount of time as writing with a pencil does than a pencil is a better
In this Journal there was a study performed on early childhood students and their reaction to touch screen computers. The results were more negative rather than positive proving that it was more productive to use the mouse and keyboard for young children.
Computer has made the life easier by providing various applications and technologies. For example, while computer has replaced typewriter, it helps the students to become a better writer as they can “revise text, rearrange paragraphs, and experiment with the tone and shape of an essay” () while using word processing. Thus, the computer helps the students to improvise their writing. Human relationship with co...
Technologies like word prediction can compare a typed word with a word in the dictionary list and recognize a mismatch as a misspelled word. This helps the writers who unconsciously reorder the letters a lot while typing. It can also assist a writer in guessing the spelling of a word.
With only “160 characters per message. To increase the amount of information they could cram into each message and save time on tapping them out, people started inserting abbreviations, skipping punctuation and using phonetic spelling” (“How Cell Phones”). When writing formal papers we all know that we have to spell out words, but some of the texting language have become a habit that slips into our writing every once and a while, and we have started talking and writing in this texting language as well. This has made our talking and writing informal and we are beginning to lose the original language. Another downfall to texting found by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, “the risk of being involved in a car accident rises dramatically when cell phones are involved; the lives of drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists are endangered daily by irresponsible people who are too distracted by their phone to pay attention to the road” (“How Cell Phones”). It really is sad that we continue to look at our phones even though we know we risk not only ending our lives but the lives of others as
Technology has make our life more productive in many different ways. One of the greatest invention is Apple’s products. It leads an evolution of tablet devices. IPad or IPhone can act as a textbook, laptop, navigation, camera, notebook, gaming devices and more. It combines all the other devices into one which allows to manage our time effectively. “This is not a simple proposition, since our devices have become more closely coupled to our sense of our bodies and increasingly feel like extension of our minds” said Sherry Turkle. They are becoming part of ourselves. Perhaps some people are saying technology causes laziness because we are relying more on a devices instead of doing stuff by our self, but technology are intended to make our lives easier. We are still doing the same thing but in a more effectively way. Human race are moving on, we cannot stay in an era where people are still using paper map to find out the way, sending letter through the post office. If there is a natural selection in Human Evolution, there is also can be a natural selection in human’s behaviors, inefficient behaviors are being eliminating.
Keyboard is a one important input device. It is rectangular size. It also contains many keys including numeric keypad, letter of alphabet, punctuation marks and others. Without using this input device, user cannot type text and number into a computer easily. This is only for general keyboard. There are also many kind of keyboard for their function. Gaming keyboard is special design for the person who likes to play games or game maker. The gaming keyboard has its own special programmable keys. Nowadays, world is being more advanced. They also design ergonomic keyboard. This design is special for the employees who always sitting in front of the computer. This design can prevent muscle pain which can lead to long-term disability. It is really comfortable. In addition, keyboard also can be found in laptop. It is different from the d...