We wouldn’t be where we are today without Mrs. Coldiron’s middle school typing class. Even though she may have wanted to, she never did use negative reinforcement to improve our typing speed or ...

One of the main problems while typing on a touch-screen is that the user receives no tactile guide to tell you where keys are in relation to each other. Hence, placing your keys ready to touch type ...

Another interesting design concept has started its journey on Kickstarter, looking to make the jump from concept to production. The iKeyboard, designed and developed by Cliff Thier, has been created ...

Researchers at Aalto University in Finland looked at how people moved their fingers while typing by using a motion-capture system with 12 high-speed infrared cameras. They found that the number of ...

Touch typing is a motor skill that enables skilled typists to type quickly (over 100 words per minute) without looking at the keyboard. Touch typists rely on muscle memory and their sense of touch, ...

Touch Typing Is a Unique Sensory-Motor Skill When I learned touch typing in the early 1980s as a high school student, our classroom still had old-fashioned manual typewriters that made a cacophony of ...

Considering how much typing on a glass touch screen blows in comparison to using hard keys, it’s easy to imagine how BlackBerry saw the first iPhone back in 2007 and thought, “Bah, this isn’t a threat ...

Typing on a keyboard without looking at the keys. Touch typing has become an essential skill these days no matter what line of work anyone does. In the early days, schools ordered special typewriters ...