Fact · Typing and writing speed
In the IUI 2020 study, image captions written with predictive text suggestions were shorter than captions written without them.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“captions written with suggestions were shorter”
Predictive Text Encourages Predictable Writing, Kenneth C. Arnold et al., Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '20), ACM, 2020, Abstract.
Open the original (DOI 10.1145/3377325.3377523)- What it measures
- Participants wrote captions for images with different kinds of predictive text suggestions.
- What it does not show
- Short image captions, not long documents.