Effectiveness of annotating by hand for non-alphabetical languages

Authors:
Muhd Dzulkhiflee Hamzah;Shun'ichi Tano;Mitsuru Iwata;Tomonori Hashiyama
Affiliations:
University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan;University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan;University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan;University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan
Venue:
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Unlike documents, annotation for multimedia information needs to be input as text, not in the form of symbols such as underlines and circles. This is problematic with keyboard input for non-alphabetical languages, especially the East Asian languages such as Chinese and Japanese, because it is labor intensive and imposes a high cognitive load. This study provides a quantitative analysis of the effectiveness of making annotations by hand during a note-taking task in Japanese. Although the lessons learned from this study come from Japanese text input, they are also generally applicable to other East Asian Languages which use ideographic characters such as Chinese. In our study, we focused on both the ergonomic and cognitive aspects and found that during annotation and note-taking task input by hand is more effective than input by keyboard. Finally, we anatomized the keyboard input problem and discuss it in this paper.