Rapid screening of keyboard layouts

Abstract

We present a rapid screening method for keyboard layouts. The method relies on user familiarity with a pre-existing layout, and can provide rapid, low-cost estimates of the eventual user speed on the new layout. It provides an effective prescreening for the expensive training curve estimates of previous methods, and provides valuable supplementary information not available from them. We provide preliminary validation of the method on a mobile phone layout problem.

Comparative Evaluation of Usability between QWERTY-Based Arabic and Non-QWERTY-Based Arabic Keyboard Layout: Empirical Evidence

“…ISO 9241:210 defines usability as "extent to which a system, product or service can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction in a specified context of use" [32]. In this case, effectiveness is concerned with accuracy and completeness with which users achieve specified goals, whereas [40]; familiarity [42]; likability [35], comfort [35], and learnability [35]; and other more complex measurements in [42] and [43].…”