A character-level error analysis technique for evaluating text entry methods

Authors:
I. Scott MacKenzie;R. William Soukoreff
Affiliations:
York University Toronto, Ontario Canada;York University Toronto, Ontario Canada
Venue:
Proceedings of the second Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction
Year:
2002

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Abstract

We describe a technique to analyse character-level errors in evaluations of text entry methods. Using an algorithm for sequence comparisons, we generate the set of optimal alignments between the presented and transcribed text. Percharacter errors, categorized as insertions, substitutions, or deletions, are obtained by analysing the alignments and applying a weighting factor. A detailed example using a real data set is given.