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Shorthand-Aided Rapid Keyboarding

An advanced, efficient, pen-based text input method for mobile computing.


Date Posted: October 21, 2004
Overview

This technology has graduated.

Shorthand Aided Rapid Keyboarding is a successful alphaWorks project that has moved on to its next stage. ShapeWriter, Inc., a company dedicated to further developing and producing this technology, has been established.


About the technology author(s):
Shumin Zhai is a research staff member at the IBM Almaden Research Center. He has done basic and applied research, published over 80 papers, and developed products in the area of user interface technologies. Dr. Zhai holds many patents and is on the editorial boards of a few leading journals in the human-computer interaction field. He is co-chair for papers of ACM CHI 2005. He has also lectured as visiting professor at many universities in the U.S., China, and Europe.

Per-Ola Kristensson worked at IBM Almaden Research Center in 2003 and 2004, where he did research and development on text input, pattern recognition, and user interfaces. He designed and implemented Shorthand-Aided Rapid Keyboarding software. Mr. Kristensson is the author of a number of research papers, and he is also pursuing his Ph.D. degree in computer science at Linköping University in Sweden in the area of human-computer interaction and user interface technologies.


Related technologies

For platform(s):
Windows 2000, Windows XP

For topics:
accessibility, Input Method, user interface, moblie devices


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Accessibility Research topic

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