Question

Describe how you would improve keyboard design on mobile devices that require extensive input, including replacing QWERTY design of the keyboards for more efficient error free input or improving applications that take advantage of direct manipulation to reduce input using the extraction of online data. In response to your peers, constructively critique their recommendations and ask relevant clarifying questions.

Answer 1

the miniaturization of smart devices, typing on an ultra-small interface is becoming a pressing design
challenge. Our technique leverages people’s spatial memory of a QWERTY keyboard to learn, use, and master a
shorthand text entry method that is otherwise hard to learn and be accepted by general users. Swipeboard’s design
accommodates a wide range of user behavior, from novices to experts, and allowed users, with less than two hours’training, to achieve an entry speed of 19.58 WPM when typing a reduced word set on a 12mm x 12mm interface.Swipeboard’s target agnostic nature also makes it a useful technique for small wearable devices where visual cues might be illegible or unavailable to the users