Toward a Pool of Text-Entry Input Techniques

Several text-entry techniques already exist, be it as research prototypes or commercial products. The number of text-entry input techniques will likely continue to increase in order to explore and leverage ubiquitous text-entry tasks with new technologies such as incoming wearable devices. In this era of increasing input techniques, we propose the creation of a pool of techniques, evaluated within a common experimental protocol, so that future work can (1) have a standardized set of baselines, and (2) easily contribute to the expansion of this pool of techniques. The contributions of this work are threefold. First, this work will unify the evaluation of text-entry techniques, which are difficult to compare in the current state of how research is done. Second, this work will set a standard regarding how future text-entry techniques will be evaluated. Third, future text-entry input techniques can be added to the pool of existing techniques.

Recommended citation: Junhyeok Kim, William Delamare, Yumiko Sakamoto, Tony Havelka, and Pourang Irani. Toward a Pool of Text-Entry Input Techniques. In Workshops of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’17 EA), 2017
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