Hend S. Al-Khalifa
Moneerah Al-Mohsin
ABSTRACT
Touch screen devices are used daily in a variety of tasks, such as sending emails and typing notes. These devices usually come equipped with soft keyboards where their design needs to strike a careful balance to meet user needs. In this empirical study, we employed eye tracking techniques on four variants of soft keyboards to explore Users Experience (UX) while using different soft keyboard layouts, and discuss possible reasons for this differences and design implications for better typing performance.
- "Fleksy | Happ Typing." {Online}. Available: http://fleksy.com/. {Accessed: 01-Jun-2014}.Google Scholar
- "Swype | Type Fast, Swype Faster." {Online}. Available: http://www.swype.com/. {Accessed: 01-Jun-2014}.Google Scholar
- "Big Keyboard - Android Apps on Google Play." {Online}. Available: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mah.big.keyboard. {Accessed: 01-Jun-2014}.Google Scholar
- "GO Keyboard (Emoji Free) - Android Apps on Google Play." {Online}. Available: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jb.gokeyboard. {Accessed: 01-Jun-2014}.Google Scholar
- I. S. MacKenzie and R. W. Soukoreff, "Text entry for mobile computing: Models and methods, theory and practice," Human--Computer Interact., vol. 17, no. 2--3, pp. 147--198, 2002.Google ScholarCross Ref
- I. S. MacKenzie, S. X. Zhang, and R. W. Soukoreff, "Text entry using soft keyboards," Behav. Inf. Technol., vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 235--244, 1999.Google ScholarCross Ref
- M. Hirose, "Optimised virtual keyboards with and without alphabetical ordering-a novice user study," in Human-computer Interaction: INTERACT'01: IFIP TC. 13 International Conference on Human-Comupter Interaction, 9th-13th July 2001, Tokyo, Japan, 2001, p. 92.Google Scholar
- X. Bi, B. A. Smith, and S. Zhai, "Quasi-qwerty soft keyboard optimization," in Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2010, pp. 283--286. Google ScholarDigital Library
- S. Kim, J. Son, G. Lee, H. Kim, and W. Lee, "TapBoard: making a touch screen keyboard more touchable," in Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2013, pp. 553--562. Google ScholarDigital Library
- T. Nakagawa and H. Uwano, "Usability Evaluation for Software Keyboard on High-Performance Mobile Devices," in HCI International 2011--Posters' Extended Abstracts, Springer, 2011, pp. 181--185.Google Scholar
- J. Cuaresma and I. S. MacKenzie, "A study of variations of Qwerty soft keyboards for mobile phones," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia and Human-Computer Interaction-MHCI, 2013, pp. 126--1.Google Scholar
- S. Al-Showarah, A.-J. Naseer, and H. Sellahewa, "Effects of User Age on Smartphone and Tablet Use, Measured with an Eye-Tracker via Fixation Duration, Scan-Path Duration, and Saccades Proportion," in Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Universal Access to Information and Knowledge, Springer, 2014, pp. 3--14.Google Scholar
- S. Djamasbi, A. Hall-Phillips, and R. R. Yang, "SERPs and ads on mobile devices: an eye tracking study for generation y," in Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. User and Context Diversity, Springer, 2013, pp. 259--268. Google ScholarDigital Library
- S. Zhai and P. O. Kristensson, "Interlaced QWERTY: accommodating ease of visual search and input flexibility in shape writing," in Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008, pp. 593--596. Google ScholarDigital Library
- J. Brooke, "SUS-A quick and dirty usability scale," Usability Eval. Ind., vol. 189, p. 194, 1996.Google Scholar
- Y. S. Park and S. H. Han, "Touch key design for one-handed thumb interaction with a mobile phone: Effects of touch key size and touch key location," Int. J. Ind. Ergon., vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 68--76, Jan. 2010.Google ScholarCross Ref
Index Terms
- Soft Keyboard UX Evaluation: An Eye Tracking Study
Recommendations
The design and evaluation of a high-performance soft keyboard
CHI '99: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsThe design and evaluation of a high performance soft keyboard for mobile systems are described. Using a model to predict the upper-bound text entry rate for soft keyboards, we designed a keyboard layout with a predicted upper-bound entry rate of 58.2 wpm. ...
Sandwich keyboard: fast ten-finger typing on a mobile device with adaptive touch sensing on the back side
MobileHCI '13: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and servicesThis Note introduces a keyboard design that affords ten-finger touch typing by utilizing a touch sensor on the back side of a device. Previous work has used physical buttons. Using a touch sensor has the benefit that it retains the form factor and does ...
MK-pad: a Mouse+Keyboard input technique for distance interaction through a mobile tablet device
APCHI '13: Proceedings of the 11th Asia Pacific Conference on Computer Human InteractionWe introduce MK-Pad (Mouse+Keyboard Pad), a technique for entering text and performing mouse operations using a tablet device for distance interaction. MK-Pad uses the screen of a 10.1" tablet touchscreen to host a soft keyboard and turns the screen ...
Comments