TY - GEN
T1 - Improved typing on a flat keyboard via tactile key-identity feedback
AU - Sim, Sung Hun
AU - Wu, Bing
AU - Klatzky, Roberta L.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partially supported by the NIH grant (5R00EB008710) to BW and the NSF grant (IIS-1518630) to RLK.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016/4/29
Y1 - 2016/4/29
N2 - The present study investigated whether the information about key identity could be effectively delivered via tactile stimulation and if such information could be used to facilitate typing on flat virtual or real keyboards. Two sets of experiments were conducted using a flat-surface, pressure-sensitive keyboard. Participants were tested in a single-lettertyping task, in which tactile sounds were used to convey the key identity information as part of stimulus or as response feedback. The results found that while the key identity information could be conveyed through tactile sounds, an association between key identity and tactile stimulation had to be learned through training, and typing performance was facilitated by the association. The findings point to a potential strategy for using tactile key-identity feedback to improve virtual keyboard typing.
AB - The present study investigated whether the information about key identity could be effectively delivered via tactile stimulation and if such information could be used to facilitate typing on flat virtual or real keyboards. Two sets of experiments were conducted using a flat-surface, pressure-sensitive keyboard. Participants were tested in a single-lettertyping task, in which tactile sounds were used to convey the key identity information as part of stimulus or as response feedback. The results found that while the key identity information could be conveyed through tactile sounds, an association between key identity and tactile stimulation had to be learned through training, and typing performance was facilitated by the association. The findings point to a potential strategy for using tactile key-identity feedback to improve virtual keyboard typing.
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U2 - 10.1109/HAPTICS.2016.7463196
DO - 10.1109/HAPTICS.2016.7463196
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84967261496
T3 - IEEE Haptics Symposium, HAPTICS
SP - 319
EP - 324
BT - IEEE Haptics Symposium 2016, HAPTICS 2016 - Proceedings
A2 - Choi, Seungmoon
A2 - Kuchenbecker, Katherine J.
A2 - Gerling, Greg
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 24th IEEE Haptics Symposium 2016, HAPTICS 2016
Y2 - 8 April 2016 through 11 April 2016
ER -