“Touchscreens are notoriously difficult to type on. Since we can’t feel the keys, we rely on the sense of sight to move our fingers to the right places and check for errors, a combination of efforts we can’t pull off at the same time. To really understand how people type on touchscreens, researchers at Aalto University and the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI) have created the first artificial intelligence model that predicts how people move their eyes and fingers while typing,” reports ScienceDaily.
“The AI model can simulate how a human user would type any sentence on any keyboard design. It makes errors, detects them – though not always immediately – and corrects them, very much like humans would…’Previously, touchscreen typing has been understood mainly from the perspective of how our fingers move. AI-based methods have helped shed new light on these movements: what we’ve discovered is the importance of deciding when and where to look. Now, we can make much better predictions on how people type on their phones or tablets,’ says Dr. Jussi Jokinen, who led the work.”