Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Typing on a smartphone is an everyday activity that involves various cognitive and behavioural processes. This papermodels touch screen text entry as cognitively bounded rationality. The model aims to maximise error-free text throughput, whilebeing constrained by its architecture and task environment. Empirical data are used to calibrate the model, which demonstratesadequate fit. The model is used to explore how strategic choices under given constraints affect text entry performance. Thepreliminary model presented here serves as a confirmation that touch screen text entry can be modelled as cognitively boundedrationality. Future extensions by integration into richer cognitive architectures are outlined.