Paper Info
Title
Escape-Keyboard: A Sight-Free One-Handed Text Entry Method for Mobile Touch-screen Devices
Abstract
Mobile text entry methods traditionally have been designed with the assumption that users can devote full visual and mental attention on the device, though this is not always possible. The authors present their iterative design and evaluation of Escape-Keyboard, a sight-free text entry method for mobile touch-screen devices. Escape-Keyboard allows the user to type letters with one hand by pressing the thumb on different areas of the screen and performing a flick gesture. The authors then examine the performance of Escape-Keyboard in a study that included 16 sessions in which participants typed in sighted and sight-free conditions. Qualitative results from this study highlight the importance of reducing the mental load with using Escape-Keyboard to improve user performance over time. The authors thus also explore features to mitigate this learnability issue. Finally, the authors investigate the upper bound on the sight-free performance with Escape-Keyboard by performing theoretical analysis of the expert peak performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.4018/jmhci.2013070103
IJMHCI
Keywords
Field
DocType
sight-free one-handed text entry,mental load,sight-free text entry method,user performance,mobile touch-screen devices,mobile text entry method,sight-free condition,mobile touch-screen device,mental attention,sight-free performance,expert peak performance,different area
Mental load,Thumb,Upper and lower bounds,Computer science,Gesture,Sight,Human–computer interaction,Iterative design,Learnability,Multimedia,Text entry
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
5
3
1942-390X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.40
37
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nikola Banovic11498.82
Koji Yatani278346.02
Khai N. Truong32002162.82