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Aesthetics and virtual keyboard designs for PDAs

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Chee Weng Khong,

Harold ThwaitesAuthors Info & Claims

Mobility '07: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on mobile technology, applications, and systems and the 1st international symposium on Computer human interaction in mobile technology

Pages 181 - 186

https://doi.org/10.1145/1378063.1378093

Published: 10 September 2007 Publication History

Abstract

This paper addresses modern-day, touch screen devices that use a stylus for interaction and text input. To date, such devices utilized QWERTY-based designs for virtual keyboards. However, the assumption here is that there is no necessity for implementing QWERTY-based virtual keyboard designs on modern-day devices such as personal digital assistants (PDAs) based upon its efficiency of use. There is limited study showing how aesthetic appeal influences the performance of users interacting with text entry on a PDA. This paper considers 3 alternative virtual keyboard designs for PDAs as opposed to the standard virtual keyboard design. We highlight the various design elements, physical attributes and aesthetics. A comparison of means for effectiveness between the 4 virtual keyboard designs and the standard virtual keyboard were performed. The results highlight the significance of more interesting, alternative interface design solutions for text-input and interactions on modern-day, touch screen devices.

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Index Terms

Aesthetics and virtual keyboard designs for PDAs
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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Mobility '07: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on mobile technology, applications, and systems and the 1st international symposium on Computer human interaction in mobile technology

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DOI:10.1145/1378063

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Wong PZhu KFu HMandryk RHancock MPerry MCox A(2018)FingerT9Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3173574.3173752(1-10)Online publication date: 21-Apr-2018
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Park EDel Pobil AKwon S(2015)Usability of the Stylus Pen in Mobile Electronic DocumentationElectronics10.3390/electronics40409224:4(922-932)Online publication date: 6-Nov-2015
https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics4040922
Wong CChu KKhong CLim T(2010)Evaluating playability on haptic user interface for mobile gaming2010 International Symposium on Information Technology10.1109/ITSIM.2010.5561513(1093-1098)Online publication date: Jun-2010
https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSIM.2010.5561513

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