The Word Gesture Keyboard: Reimagining Keyboard Interaction

摘要

Throughout human civilization, text has been an indispensable channel of communication. Modern computers equipped with desktop keyboards have dramatically increased the ease and volume of text-based communication in the form of email, text chat, and Web posting. As computing technologies expanded beyond the confines of the desktop, the need for effective text entry on mobile devices has been increasingly felt over the last two decades. Such a need has inspired both academic researchers and the information technology industry in pursuit of effective text entry methods alternative to the ubiquitous desktop keyboards. Since at least the early 1990s, mobile text input research can be found in almost every human-computer interaction conference. For example, a leading HCI journal dedicated an entire issue on text input in 2002.