Text Entry Systems: Mobility, Accessibility, Universality (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies) - Softcover

MacKenzie, I. Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0123735912 ISBN 13: 9780123735911

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann, 2007

Synopsis

Text entry has never been so important as it is today. This is in large part due to the phenomenal, relatively recent success of mobile computing, text messaging on mobile phones, and the proliferation of small devices like the Blackberry and Palm Pilot. Compared with the recent past, when text entry was primarily through the standard 'qwerty' keyboard, people today use a diverse array of devices with the number and variety of such devices ever increasing. The variety is not just in the devices, but also in the technologies used: Entry modalities have become more varied and include speech recognition and synthesis, handwriting recognition, and even eye-tracking using image processing on web-cams. Statistical language modeling has advanced greatly in the past ten years and so therein is potential to facilitate and improve text entry-increasingly, the way people communicate. This book consists of four parts, and covers these areas: Guidelines for Designing Better Entry Systems (including research methodologies, measurement, and language modelling); Devices and Modalities; Languages of the world and entry systems in those languages; and variety in users and their difficulties with text entry-and the possible design and guideline solutions for those individual user groups.

About this title

Product Description:

Text Entry Systems Covers different aspects of text entry systems. This book offers researchers and developers: global guidelines for conducting research on text entry; history of entry systems; and, specific guidelines for designing entry systems for a specific target, depending on devices, modalities, language, and different physical conditions of users. Full description

Review:

The technology that made PalmPilot and Blackberry a huge success!

About this edition

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0123735912
• ISBN 13: 9780123735911
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344