Abstract
Much of the fascination of skilled activities has to do with the speed achieved in expert performance. By comparison, the slow and stumbling performance of novices seems rather bland and uninteresting. This may explain why most previous research devoted to transcription typing has been focused on the performance of skilled subjects. As a result, we have a much poorer characterization of the properties of novice typing. The problem is that without such a characterization, it is difficult to determine how expert speeds are achieved. The major motivation for the following studies was to step out of this vicious circle. In these studies the temporal properties of skilled and novice typing are compared and an attempt is made to specify some of the differences in processing that distinguish skilled from novice performance.
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Larochelle, S. (1983). A Comparison of Skilled and Novice Performance in Discontinuous Typing. In: Cooper, W.E. (eds) Cognitive Aspects of Skilled Typewriting. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5470-6_4
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