QB-Gest: Qwerty Bimanual Gestural Input for Eyes-Free Smartphone Text Input

Ye, Linghui; Sandnes, Frode Eika; MacKenzie, I. Scott

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-49282-3_16

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“…Palin et al [1] reported that 87.0% of approximately 37,000 survey participants from 163 countries primarily used a QWERTY layout for text entry in 2018, and Statista [2] confirmed that more than 70.0% of smartphone users worldwide used chat, messaging, and email on their smartphones between July 2022 and June 2023. As such, a QWERTY soft keyboard has been popularly employed for text input on smartphones [1,[3][4][5], and communication using text input is considered the most common activity among smartphone users [2,6]. In general, studies [7][8][9] have predicted that the primary reason for this popularity is that smartphone users are familiar with a QWERTY layout based on their previous experiences with personal computers, and thus, they prefer a QWERTY soft keyboard as a means of text input.…”

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Which Thumb, the Left or Right, Touches the Letter Keys on a Smartphone QWERTY Soft Keyboard during Two-Thumb Key Entry?

Yu,

Park,

Chang

2023

Applied Sciences

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This study aims to observe which thumb, the left or right, is used for keystrokes and examine the patterns during two-thumb key entry on a smartphone QWERTY soft keyboard. A total of 36 college students, including 18 left-handed and 18 right-handed, were recruited for testing, and they had 9.7 years of smartphone use experience on average. A smartphone application was implemented, and whether the left or right thumb was used for touch interactions was recorded for each of the 26 letter keys. As a result, it was found that there were slightly more letter keys that were statistically more often tapped by the left thumb during the two-thumb key entry on the QWERTY soft keyboard, regardless of the participant’s handedness. In addition, all the letter keys were touched statistically more often with the relatively closer one of both thumbs, except for the letter keys G and V in the center. It seemed that the distance between keys and thumbs was regarded as the most important factor influencing the thumb choice for keystrokes, followed by the habituated experience of using physical QWERTY keyboards.

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Which Thumb, the Left or Right, Touches the Letter Keys on a Smartphone QWERTY Soft Keyboard during Two-Thumb Key Entry?

Yu,

Park,

Chang

2023

Applied Sciences

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“…Nevertheless, there is no theoretical framework to situate this work in relation to proposed or existing systems. Several reviews and workshops reflect on text input [44,50,23,18,27]; however, given the diversity of systems, interaction contexts, or interaction modalities, these reviews focus on one or a few specific criteria -e.g., accessibility according to a motor impairment [45] or visual impairment [55,46], mobile use [24], or 3D virtual environments [10] -and compare the systems according to this prism.…”

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DESSK: Description Space for Soft Keyboards

Raynal

Badr

MacKenzie

2022

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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We present dessk, a description space for soft keyboards. dessk provides a framework for any soft keyboard to be graphically described along four dimensions -context, representation, interaction, and linguistic system -each with multiple criteria. dessk begins with a blank working template which is populated with labels and symbols to characterize the dynamics and interactions of the keyboard. The goal is to provide a framework within which any soft keyboard can be placed and to serve as a theoretical basis to situate soft keyboards in relation to proposed or existing systems.

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User Interfaces in Dark Mode During Daytime – Improved Productivity or Just Cool-Looking?

Pedersen

Einarsson

Rikheim

et al. 2020

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Applications are increasingly coming equipped with a so-called dark mode. Our observation is that many computer enthusiasts are under the impression that dark mode in a way is better than the traditional light mode. This study sets out to explore this belief by observing if dark mode indeed poses any improvements in terms of productivity and quantity of errors over light mode. A controlled experiment was designed involving a visually intensive text entry task using a virtual keyboard with an unfamiliar layout. The results indicate that there were no differences between dark mode and light mode in terms of productivity and quantity of errors.

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QB-Gest: Qwerty Bimanual Gestural Input for Eyes-Free Smartphone Text Input

Cited by 7 publications

References 46 publications

Which Thumb, the Left or Right, Touches the Letter Keys on a Smartphone QWERTY Soft Keyboard during Two-Thumb Key Entry?

Which Thumb, the Left or Right, Touches the Letter Keys on a Smartphone QWERTY Soft Keyboard during Two-Thumb Key Entry?

DESSK: Description Space for Soft Keyboards

User Interfaces in Dark Mode During Daytime – Improved Productivity or Just Cool-Looking?

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