The Reactive Keyboard: 5 (Cambridge Series on Human-Computer Interaction, Series Number 5) - Hardcover

Darragh, John J.; Witten, Ian H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521403758 ISBN 13: 9780521403757

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1992

Synopsis

For people with various forms of physical disability, extreme slowness of communication is commonplace. In the first part of this 1992 book a functional architecture for communication aids is discussed and the idea of automatically supplying the intrinsic redundancy contained in natural communication is explained. The distinctions between adaptive and non-adaptive models of communication are shown and details are given of working predictive text generation systems. One such system is the Reactive Keyboard, and in the second part of the book this is described. It greatly speeds communication by predicting the user's next response, although it does not always predict correctly. The guesses are made on the basis of previous answers and thus can conform to whatever kind of text is entered. This will be of great value to all involved in helping disabled users interact with computers.

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Review

Review of the hardback: ' ... a significant contribution to algorithmic text prediction.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

Review of the hardback: ' ... a useful introduction and overview ...' The Computer Journal

Book Description

This 1992 book discusses a functional architecture for communication aids and the idea of automatically supplying the intrinsic redundancy contained in natural communication. The distinctions between adaptive and non-adaptive models of communication are shown and details are given of working predictive text generation systems, specifically the Reactive Keyboard.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0521403758
• ISBN 13: 9780521403757
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200