Abstract
We present a new smart-restorable backspace technique to facilitate correction of "overlooked" errors on touchscreenbased tablets. We conducted an empirical study to compare the new backspace technique with the conventional one. Results of the study revealed that the new technique improves the overall text entry performance, both in terms of speed and operations per character, by significantly reducing error correction efforts. In addition, results showed that most users preferred the new technique to the one they use on their tablets, and found it easy to learn and use. Most of them also felt that it improved their overall text entry performance, thus wanted to keep using it.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | CHI 2016 - Proceedings, 34th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Pages | 5151-5162 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450333627 |
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| State | Published - 7 May 2016 |
| Event | 34th Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2016 - San Jose, United States Duration: 7 May 2016 → 12 May 2016 |
Publication series
| Name | Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings |
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Conference
| Conference | 34th Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2016 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | San Jose |
| Period | 7/05/16 → 12/05/16 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2016 ACM.
Keywords
- Backspace
- Error correction
- Errors
- Predictive text
- Text entry
- Touchscreen
- Virtual keyboard