Pianotext: Redesigning the piano keyboard for text entry

Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, DIS

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1045-1054

  Feit, Anna Maria ^a   Oulasvirta, Antti ^a,b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Text entry; The piano keyboard

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS;

19TH CENTURY; DESIGN CHALLENGES; FORM FACTORS; INPUT DEVICES; SOUND FEEDBACK; TEXT ENTRY; TEXT ENTRY METHODS; THE PIANO KEYBOARD;

TYPEWRITER KEYBOARDS;

EID: 84904489192     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2598510.2598547     Document Type: Conference Paper

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