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Large Vocabulary Shorthand Writing on Stylus Keyboard

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Uploaded by on Jun 14, 2007

Imagine you can write words by just sliding the pen across the letter keys that makes up words on a graphical keyboard. For example: to write "that" just slide the pen from "t" to "h", etc. and spell out the word (without lifting up the pen!). This is a video companion to full technical paper on shape writing I co-authored and is published in the Proceedings of the ACM UIST 2004 conference. Reference: Kristensson, P.O. and Zhai, S. 2004. SHARK2: A Large Vocabulary Shorthand Writing System for Pen-Based Computers. In Proceedings of UIST (User Interface Software & Technology) 2004: 43-52.

This technology is now commercialized by ShapeWriter, Inc. It is called "ShapeWriter". You can download it for the iPhone by visiting the AppStore and looking for the "WritingPad" application in the "Productivity" category.

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  • from where could i dowload a similar program??????????

  • This technology is now called "ShapeWriter" and is commercialized by ShapeWriter, Inc.

    You can download it for the iPhone by visiting the AppStore. The application is called "WritingPad" (ShapeWriter, Inc.) and is in the "Productivity" category.

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  • It is not free, you should first text them to get a code.

    I typed this with my penus btw.

  • omg it like the new swype i have that on my phone

  • i got bored after 3 seconds and stopped the video :L

  • why waste a good stylus touchscreen on keyboard applications

    anyone for photoshop?

  • true

  • Seems like this could have been done with standard keys layout using the same shaped keys. since it seems to recognize sudden angular changes as keystrokes. Its basically typing without lifting up your finger or in this case stylus. Nice stuff.

  • thanks

  • doesnt look fast

  • Hmmm.. I can type faster than that, even on a iPhone/iPod Touch keyboard, no stylus needed.

    And besides a stylus will always get lost.

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