Applying mobile device soft keyboards to collaborative multitouch tabletop displays: design and evaluation

Authors:
Sungahn Ko;KyungTae Kim;Tejas Kulkarni;Niklas Elmqvist
Affiliations:
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN;LG Electronics, Seoul, South Korea;Qualcomm, San Diego, CA;Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Venue:
Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces
Year:
2011

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Abstract

We present an evaluation of text entry methods for tabletop displays given small display space allocations, an increasingly important design constraint as tabletops become collaborative platforms. Small space is already a requirement of mobile text entry methods, and these can often be easily ported to tabletop settings. The purpose of this work is to determine whether these mobile text entry methods are equally useful for tabletop displays, or whether there are unique aspects of text entry on large, horizontal surfaces that influence design. Our evaluation consists of two studies designed to elicit differences between the mobile and tabletop domains. Results show that standard soft keyboards perform best, even at small space allocations. Furthermore, occlusion-reduction methods like Shift do not yield significant improvements to text entry; we speculate that this is due to the low ratio of resolution per surface units (i.e., DPI) for current tabletops.