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Title: A Comparative Study on Single-handed Keyboards on Large-screen Mobile Devices
Many questions regarding single-hand text entry on modern smartphones (in particular, large-screen smartphones) remain under-explored, such as, (i) will the existing prevailing single-handed keyboards fit for large-screen smartphone users? and (ii) will individual customization improve single-handed keyboard performance? In this paper we study single-handed typing behaviors on several representative keyboards on large-screen mobile devices.We found that, (i) the user-adaptable-shape curved keyboard performs best among all the studied keyboards; (ii) users’ familiarity with the Qwerty layout plays a significant role at the beginning, but after several sessions of training, the user-adaptable curved keyboard can have the best learning curve and performs best; (iii) generally the statistical decoding algorithms via spatial and language models can well handle the input noise from single-handed typing.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2005430
PAR ID:
10359115
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Editor(s):
Bottoni, Paolo; Panizzi, Emanuele
Date Published:
Journal Name:
AVI 2022: Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
Page Range / eLocation ID:
4:1 - 4:9
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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