Pause

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Pauses are generally defined as inter-keystroke intervals (IKI) above a certain threshold (e.g., 2000 milliseconds). The IKI refers to the gap time between two consecutive key presses typically expressed in milliseconds. To illustrate, suppose a writer types a character "A" at time 1 and then a character "B" at time 2. One can obtain the IKI between the two characters simply using the formula: IKI = Time2 - Time1. Global measures of pausing are usually associated with the duration and frequency of pauses calculated from different dimensions. Below are some typical pause measures.

• number of pauses (in total or per minute)
• proportion of pause time (as a % of total writing time)
• pause length (usually the mean duration of all pauses in text production)
• pause lengths or frequencies within words, between words, between sentences, between paragraphs, etc.

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Number of Pauses Define a pause as a period of time between the up_time of one event and the down_time of the following event that is greater than 2000 ms

Proportion of Pause time (as % of total writing time)

Mean Pause Length

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