An answer to "Who needs a stylus?" on handwriting recognition on mobile devices

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 314, Issue , 2012, Pages 156-167

  Holzinger, Andreas ^a   Searle, Gig ^a   Peischl, Bernhard ^b   Debevc, Matjaz ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Softnet Austria   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Handwriting recognition; Human computer interaction; Mobile computer; Pen based input

Indexed keywords

ELDERLY PEOPLE; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; LARGE GROUPS; MEDICAL DOMAINS; MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS; MOBILE COMPUTERS; PATENT APPLICATIONS; PEN-BASED;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MOBILE DEVICES;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84882260412     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-35755-8_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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