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Personalized input: improving ten-finger touchscreen typing through automatic adaptation

Findlater, Leah, Wobbrock, Jacob·2012·Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
DOI 10.1145/2207676.2208520
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Although typing on touchscreens is slower than typing on physical keyboards, touchscreens offer a critical potential advantage: they are software-based, and, as such, the keyboard layout and classification models used to interpret key presses can dynamically adapt to suit each user's typing pattern. To explore this potential, we introduce and evaluate two novel personalized keyboard interfaces, both of which adapt their underlying key-press classification models. The first keyboard also visually adapts the location of keys while the second one always maintains a visually stable rectangular layout. A three-session user evaluation showed that the keyboard with the stable rectangular layout significantly improved typing speed compared to a control condition with no personalization. Although no similar benefit was found for the keyboard that also offered visual adaptation, overall subjective response to both new touchscreen keyboards was positive. As personalized keyboards are still an emerging area of research, we also outline a design space that includes dimensions of adaptation and key-press classification features.

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Authors
Findlater, L., & Wobbrock, J.
Affiliations
University of Washington (US)
ORCID
Venue
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher
ACM
Published
2012-05-05
Pages
815-824
DOI
10.1145/2207676.2208520
OpenAlex
W2118711147
Cited by
106
References
43
Citations by year
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FWCI
9.66
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
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www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy#Background (vor)
Locations
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Science Foundation
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Usability and User Interface Design
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Interactive and Immersive Displays
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › User Authentication and Security Systems
Keywords
touchscreen keyboards, typing speed, user personalization, design space exploration

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