DESSK: DEscription Space for Soft Keyboards

Mathieu Raynal (1, 2) , Georges Badr (3) , I. Scott MacKenzie (4)

1 IRIT-ELIPSE - Etude de L’Interaction Personne SystèmE
2 UT3 - Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
3 Université Antonine (UA)
4 York University [Toronto]

We present dessk, a description space for soft keyboards. dessk provides a framework for any soft keyboard to be graphically described along four dimensions-context, representation, interaction, and linguistic system-each with multiple criteria. dessk begins with a blank working template which is populated with labels and symbols to characterize the dynamics and interactions of the keyboard. The goal is to provide a framework within which any soft keyboard can be placed and to serve as a theoretical basis to situate soft keyboards in relation to proposed or existing systems.

Keywords: soft keyboards; description space; interaction models; descriptive model

Domains: Human-Computer Interaction [cs.HC]

Mathieu Raynal, Georges Badr, I. Scott MacKenzie. DESSK: DEscription Space for Soft Keyboards. International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI 2022), Jun 2022, Gothenburg, Sweden. pp.109-125, ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-05409-9_9⟩. ⟨hal-03736479⟩