Usability of Visibly Adaptive Smartphone keyboard layouts

Publication Type:

Conference Paper

Source:

20th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI2016), ACM, Patras, Greece (2016)

Keywords:

Mobile Text Entry, touchscreen keyboards

Abstract:

We present two touchscreen smartphone keyboard interface designs which dynamically alter key sizes as the user types and highlight likely key targets, based on word completion predictions. Although we find a speed reduction and no accuracy advantage with these methods over standard QWERTY, the text entry experience on mobile devices with these designs is significantly better for users.

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