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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Human as a Constrained Optimal Text Editor

Abstract

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Text editing is a sequence of two subtasks: locating a line to change, and changing it. User performance on the latter subtask, termed intraline editing, was modeled by a constrained optimal (minimum keystroke) solution. The primary constraint for modeling a given user was to employ only the commands that the user had been observed to issue.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Ph.D.
Level thesis:degree_level
Dissertation
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Computer Science
Grantor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Year dc:date
2014

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Hammer, John Maynard

Subjects

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Rights

Language dc:language
eng

Identifiers

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Identifier
(UMI)AAI8127600
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/66454

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Last updated
2026-07-22
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citation

Hammer, John Maynard. The Human as a Constrained Optimal Text Editor. Dissertation thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/66454