Year: 1993
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: One of the attractive features of keyboards is that they support novice as well as expert users.Novice users enter text using "hunt-and-peck," experts use touch-typing.Although it takes time to learn touch-typing, there is a large payoff in faster operation.In contrast to keyboarda, pen-based computers have only a novice mode for text entry in which users print text to a character recognize.An electronic pen (or stylus) would be more attractive as an input device if it supported expert users with some analogue of touch-typing.We present the design and preliminary analysis of an approach to stylus touch-typing using an alphabet of unistrokes, which are letters specially designed to be used with a stylus.Unistrokes have the following advantages over ordinary printing they are faster to write, less prone to recognition error, and can be entered in an "eyes-free" manner that requires very little screen real estate.
Authors: David Goldberg, Cate Richardson
Institution: Palo Alto Research Center
Language: English
Subfield: Human-Computer Interaction
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2020725915