Simulating a Skilled Typist: A Study of Skilled Cognitive‐Motor Performance

Cognitive Science - Tập 6 Số 1 - Trang 1-36 - 1982
David E. Rumelhart1, Donald A. Norman1
1Department of Psychology, Program in Cognitive Science Center for Human Information Processing University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093

Tóm tắt

We review the major phenomena of skilled typing and propose a model for the control of the hands and fingers during typing. The model is based upon an Activation‐Trigger‐Schema system in which a hierarchical structure of schemata directs the selection of the letters to be typed and, then, controls the hand and finger movements by a cooperative, relaxation algorithm. The interactions of the patterns of activation and inhibition among the schemata determine the temporal ordering for launching the keystrokes. To account for the phenomena of doubling errors, the model has only “type” schemata—no “token” schemata—with only a weak binding between the special schema that signals a doubling, and its argument. The model exists as a working computer simulation and produces an output display of the hands and fingers moving over the keyboard. It reproduces some of the major phenomena of typing, including the interkeystroke interval times, the pattern of transposition errors found in skilled typists, and doubling errors. Although the model is clearly inadequate or wrong in some of its features and assumptions, it serves as a useful first approximation for the understanding of skilled typing.

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Cognitive Science

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