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http://dx.doi.org/10.5143/JESK.2011.30.1.259

Performance Analysis of Text Entry with Preferred One Hand using Smart Phone Touch-keyboard  

Ryu, Tae-Beum (Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, Hanbat National University)
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Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea / v.30, no.1, 2011 , pp. 259-264 More about this Journal
Abstract
Does preferred hand show better performance than non-preferred hand in smart phone text entry using one hand. Is the performance of subjects who use left-preferred hand in smart phone text entry worse than that of others who use right preferred hand among the right handed. This study tried to address these two questions. Thirty young male undergraduate students typed a text using a smart phone which has a touch-based QWERTY keyboard two times with both hands, right and left hand, respectively. The completion time, errors were measured in the text entry tasks. All of participants were right handed, but half of them preferred right hand if they have to use one hand in smart phone text entry and other half preferred left hand. The percentage that preferred hand has better performance than non-preferred hand in smart phone text entry using one hand is less than 90% for right-preferred hand and less than 70% for left-preferred hand. The performance of left hand preferred students is not worse than that of the right hand preferred in one hand text entry of smart phone.
Keywords
Smart phone; Touch keyboard; Text entry; Preferred hand; Subject selection;
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