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07 Oct 2012
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The results indicated that these new gesture keyboards were valuable complements to unimanual gesture and regular typing keyboards.
Soft keyboards, because of their ease of installation and lack of reliance on specific hardware, are a promising solution as an input device for many languages.
Applications: These findings may influence keyboard standards and the design of keyboards.
It concludes that alternative input methods such as Swype and SwiftKey offer substantial benefits to users and are comparable with common typing speeds found on computer keyboards.
Results show that standard soft keyboards perform best, even at small space allocations.
Since onscreen keyboards compete with other user interface elements for limited screen space, it is essential that soft keyboard designs are optimally laid out.
also suggest the increased importance of experience on these smaller keyboards.
There is a need and an ability to design specialized keyboards for some situations.
Keyboards can probably be improved, but only through radical redesign of the present physical key configuration.
We argue that the shift function can improve existing keyboards at no costs.