Predicting text entry speed on mobile phones

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 9-16

  Silfverberg, Miika ^a   Scott MacKenzie, I ^b   Korhonen, Panu ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Digraph frequencies; Fitts' law; Human performance modeling; Keypad input; Mobile phones; Mobile systems; Text entry

Indexed keywords

DIGRAPH FREQUENCIES; FITTS' LAW; HUMAN PERFORMANCE MODELING; KEYPAD INPUTS; MOBILE SYSTEMS; TEXT ENTRY;

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; DIRECTED GRAPHS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MOBILE DEVICES; PRESSES (MACHINE TOOLS); ALGORITHMS; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MOBILE COMPUTING; PERSONAL COMPUTING;

MOBILE PHONES; TEXT PROCESSING;

DIGRAPH FREQUENCIES; FITTS LAW; HUMAN PERFORMANCE MODELING; KEYPAD INPUT; PREDICTIVE TEXT ENTRY;

EID: 0033717946     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/332040.332044     Document Type: Conference Paper

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