They create an AI model that simulates human writing on mobile devices

An AI model can “imitate” the way humans type on mobile phones, identifying typical errors in different human groups, with the aim of optimizing the operation of a next generation of virtual keyboards.

Researchers from Aalto University in Finland, in collaboration with the Google company, have achieved a breakthrough in text entry technology on mobile devices: they developed the first Artificial Intelligence (AI) model capable of Simulate human writing on mobile phones.

The model can analyze several groups of human users, of different ages and with greater or lesser ability to write on virtual keyboards, with the aim of determining factors that facilitate or impede mobile typing.

Imitate human writing

“Typing on a phone requires dexterity, visual perception to press the correct keys, proofreading, error correction, and memory use. Features like autocorrect can help some users, while for others it complicates the writing process,” Professor Antti Oulasvirta, leader of the research team, told Helsinki Times.

The great innovation of the new model is that it “copies” human actions related to the movement of eyes and fingers and the use of memory during exercise. writing process.

New more functional virtual keyboards

This allows you to detect the typical human errors and their corrections during writing. A simulated AI user, endowed with human-like visual and motor systems, was trained millions of times in a keyboard simulator, until he managed to acquire typing skills in different real contexts, the scientists explained.

Now, the data obtained through the model will allow the development of new virtual keyboards for mobile devices, with the ability to be more functional for the needs of human writing, according to the characteristics of each user group.