Theses and Dissertations

Issuing Body

Mississippi State University

Advisor

Strawderman, Lesley

Committee Member

Bian, Linkan

Committee Member

Burch, Reuben F., V.

Date of Degree

5-7-2016

Document Type

Graduate Thesis - Open Access

Major

Industrial Engineering

Degree Name

Master of Science

College

James Worth Bagley College of Engineering

Department

Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Abstract

Many research projects have been conducted to compare standing text entry with nomadic text entry. Other research projects have compared the input types of touchscreen and physical keyboards while texting. There is few literature that compares the two inputs types during a standing and nomadic text entry. This research was conducted to investigate the differences in error rate and characters per minute for both input types during both text entry conditions. To investigate these differences two devices were used, the iPhone 4 and the Blackberry Curve 9350, to type a phrase during both a standing and walking condition. Both characters per minute and error rate were analyzed. The investigation showed that there were no significant difference in error rate, but there was a significant difference in characters per minute. The touchscreen keyboard performed better in terms of characters per minutes and arguably performed better in accuracy.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11668/17577

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