Measuring Inviscid Text Entry Using Image Description Tasks

September 10, 2018

Publication Type:

Conference Paper

Authors:

Mark D Dunlop; Emma Nicol; Andreas Komninos; Dona, Prima; Durga, Naveen

Source:

CHI’16 Workshop on Inviscid Text Entry and Beyond, San Jose, CA (2016)

URL:

http://www.textentry.org/chi2016/9%20-%20Dunlop%20-%20Image%20Description%20Tasks.pdf

Abstract:

We argue that measuring the Inviscid text entry rate requires new evaluation methods that support freeform text entry and that are not based on the
traditional transcription/copy tasks. In this position paper we propose use of image description tasks and share some of our experiences of using this new language agnostic task type for free form text entry.

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