A study of the usability of handwriting recognition for text entry by children

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 57-69

  Read, Janet C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Education; Handwriting recognition; Pen computers; Text entry; Usability; Writing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; INK; INTELLIGENT MATERIALS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

FREE WRITING ACTIVITY; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; QUANTITY OF TEXT; TEXT ENTRY; USABILITY;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 33846105002     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intcom.2006.08.009     Document Type: Article

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