Abstract

It is a marked tendency to choose smartphones and other touch-screen devices to access the Internet rather than PCs among the younger generation. This trend embraces the flick input method, other touch-panel-operated methods and the speech input method. Therefore, it is indispensable for developers of these novel devices and researchers in ICT education and other related fields to collect extensive and effective data on the actual and major patterns of input methods among those younger generations in order to make further improvement. This paper presents an operative, feasible and reasonable approach to measure the movements of the hands, fingers, and faces of the users with input methods other than traditional ones. Our equipment to record and analyze these movements in both the keyboard and the flick input methods includes inexpensive web cameras and MediaPipe by AI Library. We designed a device using the equipment. Then we have conducted several experiments since 2021 and kept improving our apparatus. We conducted a keyboard typing experiment and analyzed two individuals with different typing tendencies. The camera captured the movement of their fingers during typing, and the results aligned with their respective tendencies.

Citation

Ochi, T., Dekihara, H., Kurahasi, M., Imai, M. & Kuramoto, A. (2023). An Analysis of the Features of Keyboard Input Method among Individual Users. In T. Bastiaens (Ed.), Proceedings of EdMedia + Innovate Learning (pp. 1164-1169). Vienna, Austria: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 31, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/222630/.

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