Peer-reviewed research
Analysis of Text Entry Performance Metrics
Ahmed Sabbir Arif and Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, IEEE Toronto International Conference, Science and Technology for Humanity (TIC-STH 2009), 2009
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- What it is
- The authors survey published text entry experiments and find that reported speeds and error rates vary widely. A user study then tests how different ways of handling typing errors change the metrics that researchers report.
- How much weight it carries
- Peer-reviewed conference paper from a university research group, read from its abstract page. The user study is small and measures text entry in general rather than one test website, so it shows that error handling matters rather than giving a single correct method.
Facts taken from this source
- A 2009 study found that the way errors are handled significantly changes every frequently used text entry error metric.
“Our study results show that the way human errors are handled has indeed a significant effect on all frequently used error metrics.” (Abstract)