From letters to words: Efficient stroke-based word completion for trackball text entry

Eighth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2006

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 2-9

  Wobbrock, Jacob O ^a,b   Myers, Brad A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

EdgeWrite; Fitts' law; Gestures; Goal crossing; Hick Hyman law; Steering law; Text input; Trackballs; Unistrokes; WiViK; Word prediction and completion; Word level text entry; Zipf's law

Indexed keywords

FLUID CROSSING GESTURE; STROKE-BASED WORD COMPLETION; TRACKBALL TEXT ENTRY;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; GESTURE RECOGNITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TEXT PROCESSING;

WORD PROCESSING;

EID: 34247364653     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1168987.1168990     Document Type: Conference Paper

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