I type faster than I can write using a pen. I know this, because after handwriting just a few paragraphs, I must stop when my hand gets tired. Evidently, writing is no different than any other ...

Computer keyboards serve as the primary manual interfaces between users and systems, designed to bring ideas, commands and communications into the digital realm. Unless you dictate into a headset ...

At first glance, it might seem logical to place letters in alphabetical order to make typing easier and faster. However, the real reason behind the familiar QWERTY keyboard layout is actually the ...

The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age. By Thomas Mullaney. MIT Press; 376 pages; $34.95 and £32 The National Chinese Characters Typing Competition is rarely cause for ...

When Bill Buxton worked at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center in the early 1990s, he examined the classic children’s homemade telephones: two cups connected by a taut string. He wondered why that same ...