Evaluation of text input techniques in immersive virtual environments

Abstract

This chapter describes six different text input techniques and their evaluation. Two techniques stand out from the others. First, a mobile phone keyboard turn out to be a valuable option, offering high typing speed and low typing errors. Second, handwritten character recognition did not perform as good as expected. All findings from this and previous experiments are collected in a proposed guidance tool which will promote their application in future projects. © 2009 Springer-Verlag London.