Ubiquitous Text Interaction

Abstract

Computer-based interactions increasingly pervade our everyday environments. Be it on a mobile device, a wearable device, a wall-sized display, or an augmented reality device, interactive systems often rely on the consumption, composition, and manipulation of text. The focus of this workshop is on exploring the problems and opportunities of text interactions that are embedded in our environments, available all the time, and used by people who may be constrained by device, situation, or disability.This workshop welcomes all researchers interested in interactive systems that rely on text input or output. Participants should submit a short position statement outlining their background, past work, future plans, and suggesting a use-case they would like to explore in-depth during the workshop. During the workshop, small teams will form around common or compelling use-cases. Teams will spend time brainstorming, creating low-fidelity prototypes, and discussing their use-case with the group.Participants may optionally submit a technical paper for presentation as part of the workshop program. The workshop serves to sustain and build the community of text entry researchers who attend CHI. It provides an opportunity for new members to join this community, soliciting feedback from experts in a small and supportive environment.

The Impact of Multiple Parallel Phrase Suggestions on Email Input and Composition Behaviour of Native and Non-Native English Writers

“…In a broad view, our results challenge research in (predictive) text entry to look beyond previous focus areas, in line with calls from the community (e.g. [18,69]). Our study empirically responds to such calls and our findings particularly motivate: (1) Exploring a larger variety of system/UI parameters (e.g.…”

“…more helpful vs more difficult to spot problems). This aligns well with calls for text entry research to consider varied user groups and go beyond speed [18,39,66,69]. Moreover, although aspects of it do appear [18], language proficiency often seems underrepresented (e.g.…”

“…This highlights the relevance of recent work on (mobile) text revision [38,45,74] and of calls for research into text "interaction" instead of "entry" [69].…”

“…Moreover, although aspects of it do appear [18], language proficiency often seems underrepresented (e.g. compared to mentionings of impairments or age [69]). In this context, our study provides a first motivating comparison and dataset of native and non-native use of phrase suggestions, also to stimulate further work.…”