COMPARISON AND EVALUATION OF FACTORS AFFECTING TYPING SPEEDS ON TOUCHSCREEN KEYBOARDS

With the introduction of touchscreen keyboards, the world of typing has taken a fundamental shift. Touchscreen keyboards have not only decreased maintenance, but have also been of practical use in many devices that are being used in modern electronic market. Touchscreen keyboards have already been billed as the future of keyboards; hence it becomes vital to study the various factors that affect the speed of typists on touchscreen keyboards to make them better and more viable for them to replace hard keyboards in the future. The paper tries to examine the effect of home row positioning, tactile feedback and auditory feedback on the typing speeds of the users.