International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
Recognition accuracy and user acceptance of pen interfaces
CHI '95 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Speech versus keying in command and control: effect of concurrent tasking
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
User acceptance of handwritten recognition accuracy
CHI '94 Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Oops! silly me! errors in a handwriting recognition-based text entry interface for children
Proceedings of the second Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction
A character-level error analysis technique for evaluating text entry methods
Proceedings of the second Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction
Metrics for text entry research: an evaluation of MSD and KSPC, and a new unified error metric
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
What's going on?: discovering what children understand about handwriting recognition interfaces
Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Interaction design and children
'Good enough for what?': acceptance of handwriting recognition errors by child users
Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Interaction design and children
Recognition errors and recognizing errors: children writing on the tablet PC
INTERACT'05 Proceedings of the 2005 IFIP TC13 international conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Jabberwocky: children's digital ink story writing from nonsense to sense
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts
Interaction Design and Children
Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction
What you see is what you worry about: errors -- real and imagined
BCS-HCI '08 Proceedings of the 22nd British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: Culture, Creativity, Interaction - Volume 2
TRAZO: a tool to acquire handwriting skills using tablet-PC devices
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Using touch as a predictor of effort: what the ipad can tell us about user affective state
UMAP'12 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization
A paradigm for handwriting-based intelligent tutors
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
This paper describes a pilot study that investigated the usability of handwriting recognition for text entry in a free writing activity. The study was carried out with eighteen children aged 7 and 8; each used three different writing methods to construct short pieces of text. The methods used were; pencil and paper, the QWERTY keyboard at a computer, and a pen and graphics tablet. Where the pen and graphics tablet was used, the handwritten text was recognised by the software and presented back to the children as ASCII text. Measures of user satisfaction, quantity of text produced, and quality of writing produced, were taken. In addition, for the handwritten work, the recognition process was evaluated by comparing what the child wrote with the resulting ASCII text. The results show that the children that took part in the study generally produced lengthier texts at the graphics tablet than at the QWERTY keyboard but that the non-technical solution, the pencil and paper was, in this instance, the overall best method for composing writing. To further the debate on the possibilities for digital ink and tablet technologies, key usability problems with the handwriting recognition interface are identified and classified, and solutions to these usability problems, in the form of design guidelines for both recognition-based and pen-based computer writing interfaces, are presented. Additionally, some reflections on how studies of text input and free writing composition can be evaluated are offered.