Predicting Chinese text entry speeds on mobile phones

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages 2183-2192

  Liu, Ying ^a   Räihä, Kari Jouko ^b  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

chinese; mobile; model; performance; speed; text entry

Indexed keywords

CHINESE; CHINESE CHARACTERS; CHINESE TEXT; EMPIRICAL DATA; EMPIRICAL MEASURE; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; FITTS' LAW; INPUT METHODS; LANGUAGE MODEL; LEVEL MODEL; LINEAR MODEL; MANY CORE; MOBILE MODEL; PREDICTIVE MODELS; TEXT ENTRY; USER BEHAVIORS; USER PERFORMANCE; VISUAL SEARCH;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FORECASTING; GRAPH THEORY; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; SPEED; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 77953988967     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753326.1753657     Document Type: Conference Paper

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