COMPARISON OF TYPING SPEEDS ON DIFFERENT TYPES OF KEYBOARDS AND FACTORS INFLUENCING IT

The advent of the soft keyboard/touchscreen keyboard has led to a revolution in the development of typing processes. Earlier the work was done using type writers, which got revolutionized when keyboards came into being. This has been further revolutionized by the introduction of on screen keyboards that came first with the iPad. With touchscreen keyboards billed to be the keyboard of the next century, it becomes vital as to study the whether different characteristics of a keyboard can influence the speed of typing of an experienced typist. To understand this, a study was conducted by us on both hard keyboards and touchscreen keyboards. The following experiment primarily focuses on the influence of size of the keyboard, home row positioning, tactile and auditory feedback.