E-Assist II: A platform to design and evaluate soft-keyboards

Bruno Merlin (1) , Mathieu Raynal (2) , Heleno Fülber (1)

1 UFPA - Federal University of Para - Universidade Federal do Pará - UFPA [Belém, Brazil]
2 IRIT-ELIPSE - Etude de L’Interaction Personne SystèmE

E-Assist II is a design and evaluation platform to help researchers and clinicians create new soft keyboards and to evaluate new or existing soft ones. The platform proposes an SDK and a simple XML language to develop complex soft keyboards. It also provides a set of tools to perform theoretical and experimental evaluations.

Mots clés: Soft Keyboard; accuracy; Design; Experimentation; entry speed; character prediction

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Bruno Merlin, Mathieu Raynal, Heleno Fülber. E-Assist II: A platform to design and evaluate soft-keyboards. Workshop on Designing and Evaluating Text Entry Methods, ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'12), May 2012, Austin, United States. ⟨hal-01758855⟩