Optimizing the android virtual keyboard: A study of user experience

Author

Gelormini, Derek ; Bishop, Bruce

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Scranton, Scranton, PA, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

15-19 July 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Virtual keyboards for mobile devices continue to lack the accuracy and efficiency of their mechanical counterparts. The intent of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of various virtual keyboard implementations employing key-resizing strategies on an Android mobile phone. Study participants were asked to type various phrases using three different virtual keyboard implementations in both portrait and landscape orientations. Quantitative results were reported and conclusions were derived to aid in the development and implementation of more efficient virtual keyboard interfaces for mobile devices.

Keywords

keyboards; mobile computing; mobile radio; user interfaces; Android mobile phone; Android virtual keyboard; key-resizing strategy; landscape orientation; mobile device; portrait orientation; virtual keyboard interface; Accuracy; Keyboards; Smart phones; Sociology; Standards; Statistics; Android; Virtual keyboard; character frequency; digraph frequency; mobile computing; on screen keyboard; text entry; text input;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia and Expo Workshops (ICMEW), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMEW.2013.6618310

Filename

6618310