A model of two-thumb chording on a phone keypad

  • Authors:
  • Nirmal Patel;James Clawson;Thad Starner

  • Affiliations:
  • Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA;Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA;Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

When designing a text entry system for mobile phone keypads, a designer needs to overcome the ambiguity that arises from mapping the 26 letters of the roman alphabet to only 12 keys (0--9, *, #). In this paper, we present a novel two-thumb chording system for text entry on a standard 12-key mobile phone keypad and introduce a performance model based on Fitts' Law for an expert user. The model provides a behavioral description of the user and predicts a text entry rate of 55.02 wpm.