• DocumentCode
    239926
  • Title

    Mobile circular keyboards

  • Author

    Leung, Lawrence ; Aarabi, P.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    4-7 May 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    This paper proposes a circular mobile QWERTY keyboard and analyzes performance on this keyboard compared to a standard flat keyboard. The Circularly Arced Keyboard (CAK) layout for single handed operation using the thumb was found to have a pangram replication time within 1.2 seconds compared to the regular keypad and a keystroke accuracy within 1.7%.
  • Keywords
    keyboards; smart phones; CAK layout; circular mobile QWERTY keyboard; circularly arced keyboard; keystroke accuracy; pangram replication time; standard flat keyboard; thumb; time 1.2 s; Accuracy; Human factors; Keyboards; Layout; Mobile communication; Standards; Thumb; human-computer interaction; human-machine interface; mobile computing; soft keyboard; user interface;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2014 IEEE 27th Canadian Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Toronto, ON
  • ISSN
    0840-7789
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-3099-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CCECE.2014.6900941
  • Filename
    6900941