Exploration of Usage Patterns for Multimodal Input Interactions

Multimodal Approaches for Text Entry in Indian Language on Mobile Devices

“…On a parallel track we performed few controlled experiments wherein the users were asked to perform few tasks such as navigation and text editing by making simultaneous use of multiple interaction modalities. We evaluated their level of performance, accuracy and user experience [8] as well as analysed few of their usage patterns such as patterns of errors, modality switching and modality preferences [9]. We analysed the steps required to input various types of characters namely, consonants, matras (vowel marks), conjuncts, diacritic marks for four popular Indic language keyboards.…”