MobileHCI 2018 Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects of Text Entry

September 3, 2018, Barcelona, Spain

13 Ramon Turró (Details)

Mobile text entry has become an integral part of our daily life. We regularly input text on smartphones, laptops, desktops and increasingly on smartwatches, VR systems, interactive tabletops/walls, and kiosks. This text entry is done in all social settings, from solo individuals writing private notes, through social networking in bars with friends, to jointly writing on collaborative devices in public spaces. Traditional tap based input is increasingly being replaced with or supplemented by voice input or multimodal control. With the ubiquity of text entry, it is becoming increasingly important to consider socio-technical systems perspectives in the design, development and evaluation of new techniques. The purpose of this one-day workshop is to share and encourage research exploring various socio-technical aspects of text entry, including social and cultural impacts, developing socially and culturally acceptable techniques, and techniques to support all users of varying ages, social and technical backgrounds, language, and physical abilities.

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Call for Participation

We invite position statements for the MobileHCI 2018 Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects of Text Entry. This one-day workshop will be held on September 3, 2018 in Barcelona, Spain. It will offer an interdisciplinary platform for researchers and practitioners interested in text entry. Its purpose is to identify and encourage research investigating various sociotechnical aspects of text entry. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

• Social acceptability of various text entry techniques (e.g., speech and gesture-based systems, multimodal text entry techniques)
• Cross-technique/device language model sharing
• Methods of teaching/convincing users to learn and adopt new text entry techniques
• Impacts of errors in text entry, and new error correction methods
• Text entry techniques for special user groups (e.g., children, elderly, physically impaired, and low-income individuals)
• International text entry techniques

Interested participants must submit a short position statement by May 31, 2018 (17:00 PST) outlining a biography, a summary of any past/future work relevant to the workshop theme; and suggesting a scenario they would like to explore during the workshop. Accepted authors may submit an "optional" technical paper for possible inclusion in the workshop program by July 30, 2018 (17:00 PST).

All submissions will be peer-reviewed with accepted papers being presented at the workshop. At least one author must register for both the workshop and for at least one day of the MobileHCI 2018 conference.

Submission Details

• Write a position statement or technical paper in the SIGCHI Extended Abstracts Format (maximum four pages excluding references)
• Submit a position statement or technical paper in PDF using this Google Form. Alternatively, email your document at textentry@asarif.com, if you do not have a Google account.

Important Dates

Workshop Proceedings

Accepted position statements and technical papers will be distributed in the Workshop Proceedings available in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org). However, authors may opt out of this service (in which case, the submission will be excluded from the proceedings).

The proceeding are now available at CEUR-WS.org

ONLINE: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2183
URN: urn:nbn:de:0074-2183-4

Accepted Technical Papers

• Ryan Qin, Suwen Zhu, Yu-Hao Lin, Yu-Jung Ko, Xiaojun Bi. 2018. Computational Layout Design for Keyboards with Multi-Letter Keys In MobileHCI 2018 Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects of Text Entry (September 3, 2018). Barcelona, Spain, CEUR-WS.org/Vol-2183, 1-5.
• Monwen Shen, Gulnar Rakhmetulla, Ahmed Sabbir Arif. 2018. Put a Ring on It: Text Entry Performance on a Grip Ring Attached Smartphone In MobileHCI 2018 Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects of Text Entry (September 3, 2018). Barcelona, Spain, CEUR-WS.org/Vol-2183, 6-10.
• Yiqin Lu. 2018. Exploring the Visual Effect of the Keyboard when Thumb Typing on Tablets (Not included in the proceedings)

Accepted Position Statements

• Luis A. Leiva. 2018. Text Entry Does Not Imply "English Text Entry" In MobileHCI 2018 Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects of Text Entry (September 3, 2018). Barcelona, Spain, CEUR-WS.org/Vol-2183, 11-14.
• Jiban Adhikary. 2018. Text Entry in VR and Introducing Speech and Gestures in VR Text Entry In MobileHCI 2018 Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects of Text Entry (September 3, 2018). Barcelona, Spain, CEUR-WS.org/Vol-2183, 15-17.
• Clemens Schartmüller, Andreas Riener. 2018. Safe, Productive and Socially Accepted Text Input in Highly Automated Driving In MobileHCI 2018 Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects of Text Entry (September 3, 2018). Barcelona, Spain, CEUR-WS.org/Vol-2183, 18-23.
• Tamanna Motahar. 2018. Native Language Text Entry Can Decrease Global Illiteracy In MobileHCI 2018 Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects of Text Entry (September 3, 2018). Barcelona, Spain, CEUR-WS.org/Vol-2183, 24-27.
• Ryan Gibson, Majed Al Khan, Gennaro Imperatore, Mark D. Dunlop. 2018. Text Entry for People with Cognitive Impairments In MobileHCI 2018 Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects of Text Entry (September 3, 2018). Barcelona, Spain, CEUR-WS.org/Vol-2183, 28-32.
• Keith Vertanen. 2018. Exploring Feedback for Enhancing Real-time Text Communication (Not included in the proceedings)

Structure

This is a full one-day workshop. Community building and discussion are core to our plans. We aim for the technical and show-and-tell sessions to provide participants, particularly early career researchers, feedback on their work from experts, stimulate ideas, and initiate new collaborations.