Chris KAm
Zachary Henkel
Reference Information
Title - Performance optimizations of virtual keyboards for stroke-based text entry on a touch-based table top
Author: Jochen Rick
USIT 2010
This paper discusses a possible solution to tabletop text entry. User would stroke from one letter to the next without ever lifting their pen, or finger. The author goes on to discuss several different possibilites for keyboard setups as apposed to the basic QWERTY setup. The author conducts a user study on this scheme. This study found that changing the keyboard to optimize this text entry method would be very problematic. The keyboard has been the same for awhile and now so the author found people did not want to change it.
Discussion
This paper was not my favorite by far. It seemed to have too much technological background. Most of it was filled with mathematical concepts and designs for the method. The concept is very cool though. I like the idea of simply dragging a pen across letters to change which words are entered. I do not, however, like concept of the author discussing possibly changing the QWERTY keyboard to optimize the solution. People are set with this keyboard and will be for years.
I don't really understand the use of the circle in wanting to change the input medium. What's with all the wasted space in the middle? The QWERTY is here to stay, as you said, for a long time to come. It sort of goes back to the argument, will we ever really need to replace the mouse?
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that this concept is very cool. In my paper reading, the author describe a design for a pressure sensitive computer keyboard. This keyboard shows some improvement to the QWERTY keyboard such as adding features depending on how hard you press a key.
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