Improving two-thumb text entry on touchscreen devices

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2765-2774

  Oulasvirta, Antti ^a   Reichel, Anna ^a   Li, Wenbin ^a   Zhang, Yan ^a   Bachynskyi, Myroslav ^a   Vertanen, Keith ^b   Kristensson, Per Ola ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bimanual performance; Keyboard optimization; Soft keyboards; Touchscreen devices; Two thumb text entry

Indexed keywords

BIMANUAL PERFORMANCE; ERROR RATE; SOFT KEYBOARD; TEXT ENTRY; TRAINING PROGRAM; TRAVEL DISTANCE; TWO HAND;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; TOUCH SCREENS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84877977138     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2481383     Document Type: Conference Paper

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