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The Ruan authors say that results in non-laboratory settings still need study, for both speech and keyboard entry.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“further study is required to quantify performance in non-laboratory settings for both methods”
Comparing Speech and Keyboard Text Entry for Short Messages in Two Languages on Touchscreen Phones, Sherry Ruan et al., Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 2018, Abstract.
Open the original (DOI 10.1145/3161187)- What it measures
- Taken from the revised version of the arXiv record (v2), which the authors describe as the version published in the ACM IMWUT journal.
- What it does not show
- The caveat is the authors' own. The study used short phrases in a quiet laboratory with one phone and one recognizer.
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