BAISHAKHI: Odia keyboard evaluation using keystroke level model

Odia is the primarily spoken language of Odisha and the sixth classical language of India. There are more than 33 million people of Odisha speak Odia in their day to day life. However, standard input methods for typing Odia are not very widespread among Odia users This paper proposes a simulation algorithm based on Keystroke-Level Model, for predicting one aspect of user performance of our previously proposed Odia keyboard “Baishakhi”. The time it takes an user to perform a given task on a given computer system is simulated by this algorithm. The design and development of BAISHAKHI Odia keyboards that can be used to type Unicode enabled Odia texts in a standard text editor using any QWERTY keyboard. We have evaluated the performance of our proposed layout with the existing Odia keyboard layouts using this simulation algorithm. Our primary evaluation shows a significant improvement in reducing time irrespective of keystrokes.