@conference {17431, title = {Touchscreen field specification for public access database queries: let your fingers do the walking}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1990 ACM annual conference on Cooperation}, series = {CSC {\textquoteright}90}, year = {1990}, month = {1990///}, pages = {1 - 7}, publisher = {ACM}, organization = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, abstract = {Database query is becoming a common task in public access systems; touchscreens can provide an appealing interface for such a system. This paper explores three interfaces for constructing queries on alphabetic field values with a touchscreen interface; including a QWERTY keyboard, an Alphabetic keyboard, and a Reduced Input Data Entry (RIDE) interface. The RIDE interface allows field values to be entered with fewer {\textquotedblleft}keystrokes{\textquotedblright} (touches) than either keyboard while eliminating certain errors. In one test database, the RIDE interface required 69\% fewer keystrokes than either keyboard interface.}, isbn = {0-89791-348-5}, doi = {10.1145/100348.100349}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/100348.100349}, author = {Sears,Andrew and Kochavy,Yoram and Shneiderman, Ben} }