Swipe VR Keyboard

This paper presents a heuristic study on the capabilities of a word-gesture based keyboard in virtual reality. Word-gesture keyboards enable faster text entry by allowing users to draw the shape of a word rather than typing each individual word character. Although adopted in touch devices, word-gesture keyboards have yet to be adopted as extensively in virtual reality applications. The text entry experience in virtual reality has become tiresome and error-prone using the basic, controller-based, point-and-click implementation. Although not a new method, our paper looks into what a word-gesture keyboard would look like in VR and the factors that might impact the usability and efficiency of the keyboard.