How Japanese university students type on smartphone and PC

Abstract

　It was clarified by a questionnaire survey that when university students input on smartphone，more than 90％ users use flick input / toggle input for Japanese，but for foreign languages，flick input / toggle input and input by QWERTY are almost around 50％. There is a significant relationship between their touch typing proficiency level in PC and foreign language input method on smartphone. One of the reasons why Japanese university students prefer smartphones over PCs，is they can use flick input for Japanese language. That is because it has high affinity with Japanese syllabary and easy to acquire input skills.