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Using a touch-sensitive wristband for text entry on smart watches

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Alireza Sahami,

Albrecht SchmidtAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '14: CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2581143

Published: 26 April 2014 Publication History

Abstract

The ongoing miniaturization of computing devices enabled smart watches with capabilities almost on par with smart phones. Due to immanent size restrictions smart watches require specifically designed input and output techniques. In particular, entering text is often needed when interacting with computers but the watches' small size excludes common input techniques. In this paper we propose a text entry technique using a touch sensitive wristband. Using the wristband requires no screen space besides displaying the current character and might enable cheaper devices. In an experiment we compare a linear keyboard and a multitap keyboard layout. We show that users type faster and make fewer errors using multitap. We argue that the inexpensive sensors enable the integration in low cost wearable watches that require text entry occasionally.

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CHI EA '14: CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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DOI:10.1145/2559206

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Matt Jones
Swansea University, Wales, UK
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Université Paul Sabatier, France
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University of Stuttgart, Germany
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Autodesk Research, Canada

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