Text Entry in Virtual Reality: Implementation of FLIK Method and Text Entry Testbed

We present a testbed for testing text entry techniques in virtual reality, and two experiments employing the testbed. The purpose of the testbed is to provide a flexible and reusable experiment tool for text entry studies, in such a way to include studies from a variety of sources, more specifically to this work, from virtual reality text entry experiments. Our experiments evaluate common text entry techniques and one novel one that we have dubbed the Fluid Interaction Keyboard (FLIK). These experiments not only serve as a way of validating the text entry test-bed, but also contribute the results of these studies to the pool of research related to text entry in virtual reality.