Update (November 29, 2012): This is the archival website for the CHI 2012 Workshop on Designing and Evaluating Text Entry Methods. Click here to go to the new website for the CHI 2013 Workshop on Grand Challenges in Text Entry.
This is the archival website for the CHI 2012 Workshop on Designing and Evaluating Text Entry Methods, held in conjunction with CHI 2012: the 30th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI 2012 will be held in Austin, Texas, USA, on May 5-10, 2012. The workshop was held on May 5, 2012.
Overview
Text entry is a culture preserving device and therefore of tremendous importance for our society. As a consequence, it is not surprising that the art of designing new text entry methods has been practiced for hundreds of years.
Text entry methods are currently being designed for mobile phones, video games, wall-sized displays, surfaces, wearable computers, and for augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices that help users with communication difficulties to speak. Another active research area is support for non-Western languages.
However, these research efforts are today scattered across multiple communities, such as human-computer interaction (HCI), augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), speech recognition, human factors, and accessible computing. There is a need to reach out and (re)connect all these communities together so that we can inspire and learn from each other.
The goal of this workshop is to bring text entry researchers from multiple disciplines together to discuss cross-disciplinary topics of relevance for text entry.
More background information is available in the workshop proposal paper (
).
Workshop Goals
- Build a community for text entry researchers that are currently scattered across many research fields, such as HCI and NLP.
- Promote CHI as a natural and compelling focal point for all kinds of text entry research.
- Discuss certain topics of text entry that are difficult to handle within the format of traditional research papers.
Programme
1. New environments and technologies
(0900-1030)
Which contexts, situations, and environments
require, or will require, better text entry
methods in the future?
A case for Number Entry (pdf)
Sarah Wiseman, Duncan P. Brumby, Anna L.
Cox
Text Entry on Interactive Tabletops Using
Transparent Physical Keyboards (pdf)
Malte Weiss, Gero Herkenrath, Lucas Braun, Jan
Borchers
How Do Users Adapt to a Faulty System? (pdf)
Ahmed Sabbir Arif, Wolfgang
Stuerzlinger
2. Outreach and community building
(1130-1300)
How do we reach out to text entry research
communities outside HCI, such as the AAC
community?
Typing with Gaze: An Interaction Design
Perspective (pdf)
Björn Yttergren, Daniel Fallman
Language models in keyboard emulation (pdf)
Brian Roark, Andrew Fowler, Melanie
Fried-Oken
Text Entry Methods For Handheld Devices Or For
AAC Writing System (pdf)
Franck Poirier
A Reverse-Huffman Algorithm for Text Entry
Interface Characterization (pdf)
Foad Hamidi, Melanie Baljko
3. Enabling technologies and methods
(1400-1530)
Which new technologies, methods and techniques
can generate new text entry methods?
OpenAdaptxt: An Open Source Enabling
Technology for High Quality Text Entry (pdf)
Mark D Dunlop, Sunil Motaparti, Prima Dona,
Naveen Durga, Roberto De Meo
E-Assist II: a platform to design and evaluate
soft-keyboards (pdf)
Bruno Merlin, Mathieu Raynal, Heleno
Fülber
Multilayer Keyboard: transition toward a new
optimized layout (pdf)
Bruno Merlin, Mathieu Raynal, Heleno
Fülber
4. New metrics and goals
(1630-1800)
Are speed and accuracy always the best metrics
to report in our publications?
Encouraging Consistency in Mobile Text Entry
Evaluations (pdf)
Steven J. Castellucci, I. Scott
MacKenzie
Analytical Evaluation of the Impact of Phrase
Set on Text Entry Rates (pdf)
Kent Lyons, James Clawson
Ten male colleagues took part in our lab-study
about mobile texting (pdf)
Niels Henze
Organisation
Organisers:
- James Clawson, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
- Mark Dunlop, University of Strathclyde, UK
- Poika Isokoski, University of Tampere, Finland
- Per Ola Kristensson, University of St Andrews, UK
- Brian Roark, Oregon Health & Science University, USA
- Keith Vertanen, Montana Tech of the University of Montana, USA
- Annalu Waller, University of Dundee, UK
- Jacob O. Wobbrock, University of Washington, USA
Advisory Committee:
- Leah Findlater, University of Maryland, USA
- Kent Lyons, Intel, USA
- Scott MacKenzie, York University, Canada
- Shumin Zhai, Google, USA