Learning to type with mobile keyboards: Findings with a randomized keyboard
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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
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2022-01
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en
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11
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Computers in Human Behavior, Volume 126
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This paper demonstrates the learning process of typing by tracing the development of eye and finger movement strategies over time. We conducted a controlled experiment in which users typed with Qwerty and randomized keyboards on a smartphone, allowing us to induce and analyze users’ behavioral strategies with different amounts of accumulated typing experience. We demonstrate how strategies, such as speed-accuracy trade-offs and gaze deployment between different regions of the typing interface depend on the amount of experience. The results suggest that, in addition to motor learning, the development of performance in mobile typing is attributable to the adaptation of visual attention and eye-hand coordination, in particular, the development of better location memory for the keyboard layout shapes the strategies. The findings shed light on how visuomotor control strategies develop during learning to type.Description
Funding Information: The research was supported by the Academy of Finland (grant numbers 291556, 310947) and Gran-in-Aid for CHEC by Kochi University of Technology. AO and JJ were suppored by the Finnish Center of AI. Publisher Copyright: © 2021
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Gaze, Learning, Mobile devices, Text input
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Jiang, X, Jokinen, J P P, Oulasvirta, A & Ren, X 2022, ' Learning to type with mobile keyboards : Findings with a randomized keyboard ', Computers in Human Behavior, vol. 126, 106992 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106992
