Output details
11 - Computer Science and Informatics
University of St Andrews
Output title
Improving two-thumb text entry on touchscreen devices
Type
E - Conference contribution
Name of conference/published proceedings
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013)
Volume number
-
Issue number
-
First page of article
2765
ISSN of proceedings
-
Year of publication
2013
URL
-
Number of additional authors
6
Additional information
<20>CHI is a top conference in HCI (acceptance rate: 20%). The paper introduces a five-step methodology for evolving new efficient touchscreen keyboards and applies it to design a thumb-keyboard that is experimentally demonstrated to be 34% faster than QWERTY. The keyboard is available as an app since June 2013 and so far 10,000-50,000 users have installed it. The paper was widely covered by international press (BBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired, Guardian, Huffingon Post, NPR, etc.) and it has lead to four newspaper columnists writing about keyboard design in relation to our work (Guardian, Telegraph, Scotsman, and the Smithsonian Magazine).
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
B - Human-computer Interaction
Citation count
0
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
-
