Shape-writing test

This is the source code of the typing test application of our MobileHCI'21 paper:

• L. A. Leiva, S. Kim, W. Cui, X. Bi, A. Oulasvirta. How We Swipe: A Large-scale Shape-writing Dataset and Empirical Findings. Proc. MobileHCI, 2021.

Our online test prompts each user with 16 short sentences. The first sentence is a warm-up sentence which is not logged. The user has to enter each sentence by swiping on a custom virtual keyboard that logs low-level information about gesture typing, such as the gesture path drawn on top of the keyboard or the time lapsed between consecutively swiped keys.

Install

Windows OS is not supported. A Unix-like OS is expected with GNU awk installed. In Debian-based Linux distributions you can run sudo apt install gawk.

You need PHP >= 5 and a web server (we highly recommend nginx).

You can test the application with the built-in php server, but it should NOT be used in production:

~$ php -S localhost:8088

Translate

To translate the user interface, GNU gettext is required. In Debian-based Linux distributions you can run sudo apt install gettext.

You can run translate.sh to handle the whole translation process in one command. Example: To translate the app to Spanish, run bash translate.sh es_ES, then edit the generated locale/es_ES/messages.po file with your Spanish translations and finally run bash translate.sh es_ES again to update the app. You must restart/reload your web server afterwards.

Citation

@InProceedigs{swipe_dataset,
  author    = {Luis A. Leiva and Sunjun Kim Wenzhe Cui and Xiaojun Bi and Antti Oulasvirta},
  title     = {How We Swipe: A Large-scale Shape-writing Dataset and Empirical Findings},
  booktitle = {Proc. MobileHCI},
  year      = {2021},
}