Bimanual gesture keyboard

  • Authors:
  • Xiaojun Bi;Ciprian Chelba;Tom Ouyang;Kurt Partridge;Shumin Zhai

  • Affiliations:
  • Google Inc., Mountain View, California, USA;Google Inc., Mountain View, California, USA;Google Inc., Mountain View, California, USA;Google Inc., Mountain View, California, USA;Google Inc., Mountain View, California, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Gesture keyboards represent an increasingly popular way to input text on mobile devices today. However, current gesture keyboards are exclusively unimanual. To take advantage of the capability of modern multi-touch screens, we created a novel bimanual gesture text entry system, extending the gesture keyboard paradigm from one finger to multiple fingers. To address the complexity of recognizing bimanual gesture, we designed and implemented two related interaction methods, finger-release and space-required, both based on a new multi-stroke gesture recognition algorithm. A formal experiment showed that bimanual gesture behaviors were easy to learn. They improved comfort and reduced the physical demand relative to unimanual gestures on tablets. The results indicated that these new gesture keyboards were valuable complements to unimanual gesture and regular typing keyboards.