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RSS input penMicrosoft gets touchy-feely in Windows 7
News The ability to use touch to give users fingertip control of their screens could help revolutionise how computer desktops and mobile phones are controlled and would be an alternative to existing mouse, keyboard and pen-based user controls. [28 May 2008]
Tilt Menu: Using the 3D Orientation Information of Pen Devices to Extend the Selection Capability of Pen-Based User Interfaces
White Paper The Tilt Menu has the potential to aid traditional one-handed techniques as it simultaneously generates the secondary input (e.g.a command or parameter selection) while drawing/interacting with a pen tip without having to use the second hand or... [28 Mar 2008]
FreePad: A Novel Handwriting-Based Text Input for Pen and Touch Interfaces
White Paper This paper proposes a novel input method that addresses some of the issues that arise due to the constraints posed by these devices in accepting handwriting input. For instance, many of the devices have a small writing area making "Continuous... [14 Feb 2008]
MIDP GUI Programming, Part 1
White Paper For example, the display size of handheld devices is smaller, and input devices do not always include pointing tools such as a mouse or pen input. User interface requirements for handheld devices are different from those for desktop computers. [10 Oct 2007]
Language Modeling for Soft Keyboards
White Paper This paper describes how language models, combined with models of pen placement, can be used to significantly reduce the error rate of soft keyboard usage, by allowing for cases in which a key press is outside of a key boundary. [19 Jul 2007]
Comic Relief gets IT ready for donation deluge
Case Study The charity has opened up its back office with 10,000 operators using a computer system to input donations - and the other 3,500 sticking with the previous paper and pen-based system. Comic Relief has revamped its website and IT infrastructure to... [15 Mar 2007]
Ink and Agents on Tablet PC
White Paper When the author thinks of Tablet PC he probably immediately thinks about such capabilities as pen input directly on the screen, handwriting recognition, landscape and portrait screen orientation, built-in wireless connectivity, speech recognition... [21 Nov 2006]
Photos: Get your Bluetooth into 007's style
Photo To the uninitiated, the Bluetooth digital pen may have a whiff of technology for technology's sake about it. Social workers in Greenwich, meanwhile, have been trialling a digital pen and paper system since April [20 Nov 2006]
Easily Write Custom Gesture Recognizers for Your Tablet PC Applications
White Paper However, when designing an application for Tablet PC, it's critical that the users keep pen input and pen interaction at the forefront of their thinking. Though the pen provides direct interaction with the screen, traditional user interface... [14 Nov 2006]
Building Ink Chat: Ink Interoperability Between Windows XP Tablet PC Edition and Other Microsoft Operating Systems
White Paper One of the key advances in the Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system is the ability to easily allow developers to add support for pen based input to applications. This input is referred to as Ink and the rich API's included in the... [14 Nov 2006]
Photos: The top 10 smart mobile devices
Photo The tablet can swap between pen input and finger input using an on-screen keyboard for the serious emailers. It also ticks some necessary boxes with IE Mobile, Powerpoint and all the usual suspects, as well as a stylus input option. [09 Nov 2006]
Mobiles to track bird flu and Aids spread
News In Rwanda, the system, created by the GSM Association and vendor Voxiva, is used to keep tabs on the health infrastructure and has replaced the old paper and pen input. Doctors tracking the spread of HIV and bird flu have a new tool to help in the... [18 Oct 2006]
Photos: Mobiles of the future
Photo The pen input and camera are intended to make it easier for inveterate bloggers to make postings while out and about. Students at Central St Martins College of Art and Design in London have been coming up with designs for the biggest selling phone... [13 Jun 2006]
Photos: Future tech from HP boffins
Photo The gesture keyboard consists of a graphics tablet with an electronic pen or stylus to capture digital ink and a software layer to recognise the shapes. The layout has base characters laid out and the user writes the modifier (matra) on the base... [12 Apr 2006]
Microsoft sells 500,000 mobile devices - at once
News The Bureau had previously used paper and pen to take US citizens' details which were then digitised by data entry staff. The Microsoft contract forms part of a wider $600m, five-year field data collection automation deal with Harris, which is aimed... [05 Apr 2006]
