Alphabetically biased virtual keyboards are easier to use: layout does matter

Authors:
Shumin Zhai;Barton A Smith
Affiliations:
IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA;IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA
Venue:
CHI '01 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
2001

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Abstract

Virtual keyboard layouts have been optimized for expert users with no consideration of novice users' ease of locating individual keys. This paper presents a new layout produced by means of a Metropolis algorithm with an added alphabetical bias term to the previous Fitts-digraph energy function. At a small cost of expert's performance, the new layout with alphabetical tendency offered 9% improvement to novice user's performance.