Fact · Dictation
In Feng, Karat and Sears's study, navigation and error correction took a big share of the dictation task during the early stages of use.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“navigation and error correction accounted for big chunk of the dictation task during the early stages of interaction”
How productivity improves in hands-free continuous dictation tasks: lessons learned from a longitudinal study, Jinjuan Feng et al., Interacting with Computers, 2005, Abstract.
Open the original- What it measures
- The study logged dictation, navigation and correction separately for users of continuous dictation software.
- What it does not show
- Early-stage users of 2000s software. The authors report that users became more efficient with experience, so the split changes over time.
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