Now Dasher! Dash away!: longitudinal study of fast text entry by Eye Gaze

ABSTRACT

Dasher is one of the best known inventions in the area of text entry in recent years. It can be used with many input devices, but studies on user performance with it are still scarce. We ran a longitudinal study where 12 participants transcribed Finnish text with Dasher in ten 15-minute sessions using a Tobii 1750 eye tracker as a pointing device. The mean text entry rate was 2.5 wpm during the first session and 17.3 wpm during the tenth session. Our results show that very high text entry rates can be achieved with eye-operated Dasher, but only after several hours of training.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)

Keywords:
eye tracking, gaze writing, longitudinal study, text entry