Dr Em Williams

The #TurboTyping school study successfully launched this morning, with 150+ logins today 🥳🤩🎉

200 Year 5 children will be logging in 4x a week for 7 months. They learn to touch type & every month complete a set of mini-games that measure progress on typing "sub-skills" ⌨️🕹️

1 year since launching my 7-month #TurboTyping study! 🤯

1️⃣5️⃣0️⃣+ pupils learned to touch type 🧒
2️⃣2️⃣ school weeks of 4x 20 min 🗓
1️⃣ proud researcher ☺️

Celebrated the launch by embroidering & sleeping 🪡

Celebrating the anniversary by analysing the keyboard memory data! 📊

🚨 New #preprint: The #TypabilityIndex is here! 🚨

The Typability Index explained 72–87% of typing difficulty variance across datasets and allows users to score new texts & create grouped text sets.

Read here: osf.io/preprints/psya…

Try the web app: emily-a-williams.shinyapps.io/the-typability…

Excited to be invited to the @UniversityLeeds Research Impact & Engagement Awards for my #TurboTyping project for 'Emerging Societal Impact'!

Highlights:
🔍 Feedback from pupils
👩‍🏫 Co-design with educators
🎮 Gamified research on typing learning

#MotorSkills #DigitalLiteracy

Me today. We know that numbers and capitals are slower to type than lowercase, but who actually SAID it? 🔍🤦‍♀️