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@article{Card1987EvaluationOM,
  title={Evaluation of mouse, rate-controlled isometric joystick, step keys, and text keys, for text selection on a CRT},
  author={Stuart K. Card and William K. English and Betty J. Burr},
  journal={Human-Computer Interaction},
  year={1987},
  pages={386-392},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:59725361}
}

Four devices are ev aluated with respect to how ra pid ly they can be used to sc lccl text on a CRT di splay. The mouse is fo und to be fastest on all counts and also to have the lowest error…

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