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History of Pen and Gesture Computing:
Annotated Bibliography in On-line Character Recognition, Pen Computing, Gesture User Interfaces and Tablet and Touch Computers
References from the approximate years 1999 to 2000.
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Source: Annotated Bibliography in On-line Character Recognition, Pen Computing, Gesture User Interfaces and Tablet and Touch Computers Copyright Jean Renard Ward
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Comprehensive and detailed history of the development of ARPANET/Internet, 1950s to 1999, with dates of technical development related to Internet, remote and network computing, browser/world-wide-web/hyperlinks, applications. RJE programs transferred remotely (RPC Remote Procedure call), network software over Arpanet 1982. No mention of certificates, encryption, SSL.
Touchscreen slider: only use motion along direction of slider, stop slider action of user moves finger perpendicular to slider
Touchscreen TV remote control also accessing internet, data encoded in television signal. Videoconferencing, connection to telephone lines.
Full-alphabet recognition using 12-key keypad, alternative to Mosaic zone-based handwriting recognition for PDAs by the same group
Report Shumer patent on virtual tablets concerning WinTab specification.
Prettifying of electronic ink and sketches by least-squares fit to a clean shape or line, before the pen/stylus is lifted
Does not cite it, but appears similar to spline fitting of electronic ink done by Slate / GO Corporation in the PenPoint operating system: The Slate/Go process was invoked only after the pen was lifted
Relies on some simple recognition of which strokes are characters, and which are sketching: also similar to Slate/GO
Says that providing initial recognition results while input is still being drawn (with sketches, not characters) allows lower-quality recognition to be used, because the user can stop as soon as the correct result is displayed
Shows a UI for handwriting where handwritten characters are gradually replaced by font recognition results, and prettified / normalized in position
3D/6DOF "tablet" position sensors, extended range over 170 inches: at greater distances, greater filter lag.
3D/6DOF "tablet" position sensors, range 4 feet, extended range over 10 feet. Pulsed DC magnetic field. One sensor per interface card, one transmitter for all.
Bimanual two-handed input user interface. Polhemus multi-stylus (multi-touch) hardware, Wacom multi-stylus Into tablet, Mimio by Virtual Ink (note: not the display company).
Study of asymmetric two-handed / two-pointer user interface using Wacom two-puck digitizing tablet: multi-touch.
Simulate laying flexible tape in two-handed graphical drawing user interface, to model behavior of tape drawing in automobile body design to get smooth curves. Prototype did not use multi-touch touchscreen, used Ascension Flock-of-Birds electromagnetic trackers.
Interview with Jeff Hawkins: GridPad, Handspring, Palm, Zoomer, Newton, Graffiti
Embodied user interface: Hand-held device with accelerometer in a display: user input is by gestures moving device: pitch, roll, slosh, snapping, tapping, fanning. Device automatically changed from portrait to landscape mode based on how it was held: compare with iPhone accelerometer. Cites to earlier work on accelerometers, graspable user interfaces.
Hand-held/palm computer running Linux and X-Windows, touchscreen. Fanning gestures to review photo albums, tilt-and-scroll using built-in accelerometer. Pictures and be shown in either landscape or portrait mode. Long section on power management, clock rate.
Proprioceptive (skin/stretchable) sensor on back of hand, includes a display. Slide-to-unlock gesture?
Scollbar scrolls faster velocity when scrolling larger objects (larger objects have greater inertia), or user moves mouse or touchscreen input faster: no coasting, object stops immediately when mouse is no longer moved. Inertial scrolling
Transparent graphical user interface tools on touchscreen of smartphone. Press-and-hold of one to two seconds. Analog (resistive sheet?) touchscreen, but can determine pointer size (stylus, finger) from contact area / touch point distribution, or by speed of pressure change. One feature is showing translucent/transparent navigation arrows on small screen all the time, can be enabled when needed (reduces screen real estate needed).
touchscreen targeting accuracy improved -- especially for small targets -- with an auditory tone between 50 and 400 ms, not longer or shorter. Shape of target/button has less effect. Mentions that resistive overlay touchscreens may transmit only as little as 55% of light, problems of visual parallax. Touch/tap and long-hold gestures for single and double-click emulation. No references to haptic feedback. Stylus more accurate than finger (but no discussion of specific stylus problems or uses)
Siemens e-license: challenge/response with asymmetric keys (compare with HTTPS/PKI) for DRM rights managements for software. Note: worked with Glenn Benson at Siemens
Animated rolling/moving marquee of thumbnails of HTML documents or images, either circular cycle at end, or bounce at end of marquee
Customizable buttons Bbackground describes Apple's Hypercard system; describes creating pop-up buttons, multi-state buttons, and radio buttons; providing feedback to show selected menu entry.
Mentions GUIDE hypertext system. says "the actions performed by the buttons can refer to the contents or appearance of the button itself, and hence to any properties that the document editor supports. Thus buttons can be used to modify their own appearance or to transfer their properties to other objects in the same document editor."
Capacitive matrix touch-screen sensor for simultaneous proximity of one or more fingers: multi-touch. Also refers to transcapacitance / mutual capacitance in a grid being well known in the field.
Fujitsu 3400 PenLab portable/docking pen computer, Windows 95 with Microsoft pen extensions. Mentioned design change to avoid rear-mounted electromagnetic digitizer, in favor of front-mounted resistive film digitizer. Optical plate to reduce visual parallax.
Mitchell Forcier user-interface patent lawsuit against Microsoft, claims that technology misappropriated by Aha! Software and licensed to Microsoft.
File contains additional information: "MS sued over Win CE patent clash": Microsoft acquired Aha! (see file) in 1996 for electronic ink recognition: "Smartink" for editing handwriting like text (compare with van Raamsdonk) for InkWriter on Windows CE (sketch editing). Aha! patent reverted to Forcier.
Adding a haptic vibrator for tactile feedback to any kind of touch input: tablet, keypad, keyboard, etc. Tactile feedback is in acoustic range: 100 to 5000 Hz.
Comparison of QWERTY and "T9" (TegicCommunication) simulated keyboard layouts: QWERTY wins, because users can find the keys more easily. References to papers comparing performance and usability of handwriting recognizers
PenScheduler patent, divisional of 5,539,427. Recognition technique, user interface GUI techniques for closed loops / lasso gesture.
Prototype low-power portable multimedia terminal (slate format) with pen input, speech recognition, video
Compendium of user-interface guidelines and principles from many reference. Sections 8.4 refers to accidental touch activation with a touchscreen: 1985 reference on switch?
Review of various work on intelligent paper -- Cites to Wellner and DataGlyphs: compare with Anoto (not cited?). Mentions TEI Text Encoding Initiative for encoding data in printed documents, dataglyphs, electronic ink on paper. Xlibris Active Reading Machine and Dynomite appear similar to Slate DayTimer Notebook product of approximately 1992 (not cited?). Dataglyphs make paper function as a touchscreen.
Multi-touch finger-painting educational prototype using keyboard-sized Multi-Touch Surface (MTS). For children, gestures are too complicated, suggest template of menus / control areas along with drawing: Compare with Doster and Oed? Mentions Fingerworks multi-touch hardware in 2000, Lee/Buxton papers from 1980s, Nakatani 1991.
AIX Windowing system command reference: drag-and-drop, X11 color database for color management in windows.
Stereo object detector / navigation aid for the visually impaired: mounted in eyeglass frames. Two sonar devices, using continuous swept-frequency, measures frequency difference (caused by phase shift from time delay) between reflected signal and internal signal. Output is generated to provide audible psychoacoustic location in user's hearing. Can be one sonar transmitter and two separated receivers, or two transmitter/receiver pairs.
Short overview of touch tablets: refers to "dual pressure" sensing and infrared sensing proximity (but not touch) to simulated proximity sensing. States that touch tablets do not actually send signal that stylus is not pressing on tablet, but instead this must be inferred from timing of touch tablet data (tablet stops sending) (Was he sure on this?).
Review of uses of Large displays (with touchscreen or tablet or pointing input) like Active Desk/Whiteboard to design styling of automobiles: also ImmersaDesk Virtual Reality VR with two datagloves for hand input and stereo headtracking imager. Laser pointer instead of touchscreen, multiple display walls create a "cave".
Keep user interface elements in display at constant orientation for the user, as the display itself is rotated in a multi-user system
As flat display rotates, re-draw image so that image does not appear to rotate to the user: useful in spinning-display 3D display?
Simulated keyboard on a display: however, typing action is gesture-like: tap on key for lower case, drag upwards from key for upper case, drag right for control-c, drag right-up for control-C. Diagonal stroke used for whitespace/backspace/return/delete. Describes pendown/pendrag/penstill/penup events (press-and-hold), not just mouse button up/down.
See also http://www.billbuxton.com
Transparent user interface tools on touchscreen user interface: e.g. keypad menu. Describes dithering/stippling/screen-door transparency, including use of a mask. Based on user experiments, less transparent overlays used over text/wire-frame background for visibility, vs. solid/video image underneath. Surface (blank) area of overlay window automatically transparent, transparency of objects in overlay ("non-surface") varied for visibility depending on type of foreground image (text/line-drawing vs. solid icons).
Review of ActiveX security problems and measures
Digitization of 1992 CHI demonstration Video of "Touchscreen Toggle Design"?
same names as Apple iPhone, but different product. Desktop stylus touchscreen/display telephone with web surfing (via phone modem) and email.
Stephen Capps is listed in over 50 patents for pen-computing user-interface features, mostly from the Apple Newton.
Patents cite little or no prior art before 1990. Compare to van Raamsdonk, Pencept, and CIC?
Display semi-transparent virtual/software keyboard over application image in a touchscreen display ("variable-pixel control"), for example in a wearable or hand-held computer. Overlaying may be by blending images, see-through transparency, or dotted-lines for key/keyboard image. Switches between keyboard mode and cursor (drawing) mode based on continuous touching for a period of time (dwell?). Zoom gesture requires multiple fingers. multi-tap (multi-touch) gestures. Dwell/press-and-hold.
Casio Touchscreen PDA with stylus: tap/double-tap/drag, on-screen keyboards for specific applications, electronic ink sketching and drawing, on-screen keyboards (alphanumeric, symbols/punctuation, date keyboard (date picker, with drag for ranges), calculator keyboard, time/dial with rotary/circular virtual key arrangement. Electronic file has additional materials, including PV Merlin handwriting/gesture recognition (backspace, enter gestures, etc.) Unistroke?
Product information on IT-2000, hand-held touchscreen/pen computer for data collection.
User guide, Product information on IT-2000, hand-held touchscreen/pen computer for data collection. Refers to stroke keys (physical buttons) and touch keys (virtual buttons): virtual buttons can show multiple user-selectable keyboard layouts.
Scan matrix keyboard that allows multiple keys to be pressed simultaneously an recognized (chord input). Rows are pulse signalled sequentially, column conductors sense when signals are detected from that particular column, thus scanning entire grid matrix. Key switch technology can be mechanical, electrical, or capacitive. Compare to Kaplow multi-touch programmable keyboard/input device.
Tap, drag, tap-and-drag gestures on touchpad digitizer, with check for moving out of working area. Note: press-and-hold: tap-and-drag does *not* have a hold. Switches between pen-input and mouse-input mode. Refers to light pen.
Force/pressure sensing touchpad digitizer tablet using resistive film: compare with Elographics
simulated velocity/momentum when scrolling when object moves outside/into work area boundary: compare with artificial reality project?
Tap, drag, tap-and-drag gestures on touchpad digitizer, with check for moving out of working area. Note: press-and-hold: tap-and-drag does *not* have a hold.
tap/click, move, press and drag gestures on touchpad/touchscreen digitizer. Uses two distance thresholds, time threshold also for establishing contact in press-and-hold gesture.
Authenticate both ends of a VPN virtual private network connection via software layer (shim) hooked into socket connection code: multiple connections on VPN. Authentication handled by central server, communications are peer-to-peer.
Project management and organization system.
UI Window controls: image lists, hot keys, hot key configuration. Specification includes verbatim excerpts from Microsoft documentation for Header Controls
Electronic ink note-taking application: computer (pen computer, Windows 95) shows video and slides from live classroom presentation, user can make ink and/or voice annotations at the same time. Nikon Coolpx 300: digital camera plus stylus capture for electronic ink notation for screen displays. Compare to Wang Freestyle (not cited).
Touchpad gestures: can move past edge by moving to edge, touchpad firmware holds position for three seconds to allow user to scroll/drag farther by stroking pad again. Compare with "edge motion" references.
Pop-up transparent scroll bar icon: in response to a gesture? press-and-hold?
Qbe Tablet-form pen computer by Access Technologies, Windows 98 Windows NT with Calligrapher handwriting recognition, virtual keyboard, built-in camera. Mentions Fujitsu and other tablet computers with touchscreen.
Palm VII PDA/cell/smartphone with touchscreen user interface: includes wireless web browsing
Low-power mode on portable pen computer, passive stylus: monitors for stylus contact on touchscreen to wake device up from hibernation. Larger system has movable virtual on-screen keyboard, other GUI. Compare with PenPoint, Wang Freestyle?
Dual mode digitizer for finger input or stylus/pen input. Says "finger and pen", but only reports one, with pen/stylus getting priority. Includes built-in calibration for active area by touching two corner locations via controller commands. Capacitive film digitizer technology (refers to 4,198,539 for sensor details). Looks like MicroTouch TouchPen.
Knight tool: Gesture-based multi-user whiteboard user interface. Says unfortunately no multi-touch (single users must take turns) on prototype hardware (Smart Board), unlike Xerox Liveboard (Tivoli). Gestures include sketch recognition, e.g. UML rectangle objects. Context-dependent pie menus (marking menus) for large surface. "Radar window" shows small image of entire workspace drawing. Notes that Xerox Liveboard could accept multiple pen touches at the same time.
Multi-user (multi-touch) large screen display for collaborative work using laser pointers. Rear cameras detect light spot from laster pointer: multiple cameras to cover large (tiled) display. Corrections needed for parallax/other offsets from different cameras to correct position. Strokes (by different users) determined by proximity at 60 Hz frame rate. Gestures using Goldberg unistroke recognition (see 1993 paper).
Shorthand, taught handwriting styles by education, single-stroke writing, Pittman
Rapid algorithm for flood fill of a region of same color (or other same attribute) of a pixel in the region.
The title is odd, but the paper makes substantial references to 2D circular barcode (ringcode) tags, and inferring the approximate location, orientation, and identifier of the tags using optical scanning / visual processing. Compare with Sekendur.
Automatic placement of windows in graphical user interface, most important window largest in center with other windows radially around. Orientation / rotation?
Patient has smart card to decrypt/encrypt data from medical records for doctor (or other electronic documents). Cited in MAZ Lenovo
Electronic notebook/PDA/smartphone, stylus/touchscreen, clamshell/convertible/detachable display, wireless networking, video
Alternative to folders: objects (files) stored in a database with multiple attributes for each object, objects can be viewed, grouped, or displayed by any combination of attributes (file can be in two different groups at the same time): placeless documents.
Contains examples of gestures: spiral, dash/flick, square. Example of circle/lasso gestures from Handwriter for Windows by CIC Communication Intelligence Corporation, Pen Windows / Pen Extensions, Windows CE, Fujitsu 2300 pen computer
Video demonstration of KidPad: See other references.
Touchscreen/touchpad device using multiple finger contacts: second finger contact is in a separate sensing area. When user moves finger rapidly above a speed threshold, touchpad sends different data (e.g. it scrolls faster, or enters a power-scroll mode) to compensate for some of the limitations of a small touchscreen on a portable device. When nothing is touching, device automatically adjusts to ambient environment.
Mouse click and drag-and-drop gestures with mouse flick gestures: minimum number of pixels movement to distinguish mouse clicks from flicks, velocity threshold for flick and drag: mentions that with stylus selection should be on touch-down, contrasted to mouse on mouse-up event. Note: press-and-hold: threshold, equivalent to tap threshold, velocity to other threshold.
Electrostatic/capacitive touchscreen digitizer with eight-wire resistive touch screen, silver ink as conductor at sides, to overcome resistance changes and drift due to aging and wear, ratio-metric conversion for A/D converter output.
Electrostatic/capacitive touchscreen digitizer with patterned conductive sensor (grid matrix?)
Disallowed Operational Anomaly system: dynamic modelling of program behavior using execution path patterns, deny operation when program behavior diverges from learned patterns.
Technical reference for Cylant.com, intrusion detection contrasted to signatures for files or SNORT network patterns
electronic switches and sensors woven into wearable fabric: single-touch flexible tablet: appears to be resistive film equivalent. Switch matrix for multiple touch inputs? (Used for flexible keyboard)
Pen tablet computer: not Tablet PC, uses CIC PenX handwriting-recognition software (trainable), with on-screen soft keyboard. Runs modified Windows 9X / Windows98 OS
Pen tablet computers: not Tablet PC, mostly Windows 95 / Windows98. Aqcess Technologies QBE tablet computer.
Match overlap on adjacent images for best fit: applied to Anoto pattern
Touchscreen smartphone, on-screen virtual keyboard, handwriting recognition. User interface guidelines for WAP/WML (reduced HTML: Wireless Markup Language) environment for browser in very small handl-held display.
Touchscreen smartphone, on-screen virtual keyboard. three-point calibration of touchscreen with stylus. Flip closed, non-touchscreen display and physical keypad; flip open touchscreen desktop with icons. Handwriting recognition mostly single strokes: Grafitti II? Palm OS? Period is diagonal stroke, not tap; accent marks entered next to main character. Extended handwriting character set for oested, Yen symbol, OE/AE, etc.
Implementation of RSA SecurID on touchscreen smartphone for use as two-factor security token.: "generate passcode" application.
Image of multitouch input of hand from Fingerworks input tablet
Additional information in paper file
Electronic teddy bear with various computer interactive technologies: specifically mentions tablet computer and gestures (e.g. shake)
European patent also on file: same Goldberg of Unistroke
For drawing/sketching, permit user to turn or rotate touchscreen or pen-computer display, automatically rotate orientation of menus, pop-ups, and UI to keep correction orientation to user.
"Scrubwheel": mouse with a rotational control, so that it can both be positioned (to select something, such as which video clip) and rotated (as a knob to control speed of rendering)
See also http://www.billbuxton.com
Change cursor on display depending on which area of a menu strip on separate tablet a stylus is hovering over in proximity.
Shows graffiti-like unistroke character recognition, including unistroke "X" and German "Sharp-S". Mentions Inferno Operating System
Editing of handwriting/electronic ink without recognition of characters
Editing of electronic ink: word-wrap, inserting spaces, editing of handwritten lines of text. Compare with van Raamsdonk?
Press reports from 1999 of Forcier accusing Microsoft of patent infringement for electronic ink editing
Perimeter menus for entering ideographics on a touchscreen (or other pointing device, mouse, head-mouse for handicapped, etc.) for entering Chinese or other ideographic characters, or for speech generator input for motor handicapped. Items may be selected by a dwell time (press-and-hold), then move to sub-menu (which may be displayed). Show a visual indicator (brightness) in menu item on screen of how much dwell time is remaining. Discontinuous dwell time (aggregate dwell) for users who have hand tremors. Also different dwell time thresholds for different keys. Compare with marking menus.
Numerous references to dwell time (press-and-hold) in computer accessibility (e.g. HeadMouse), in addition to touchscreens.
Perimeter menus for entering ideographics on a touchscreen (or other pointing device, mouse, head-mouse for handicapped, etc.) for entering Chinese or other ideographic characters, or for speech generator input for motor handicapped. Items may be selected by a dwell time (press-and-hold), then move to sub-menu (which may be displayed). Show a visual indicator (brightness) in menu item on screen of how much dwell time is remaining. Discontinuous dwell time (aggregate dwell) for users who have hand tremors. Also different dwell time thresholds for different keys. Compare with marking menus.
Fuzz-testing (random keyboard and mouse inputs) crashes or causes to fail most Windows NT application. Continuation of similar work done on Unix in the 1990s, that few programmers write software that check input for plausibility, so unanticipated inputs cause failure.
Scan data sent between two parties on telephone lines for a virus and block part of the data from being transmitted. Executing program that would be transmitted in a model of the receiving computer to detect virus before transmitting data.
Transparent windows in a GUI, using alpha blending of pixel data. Example show menu boxes with buttons overlaid on other windows.
Documentation of Drag Start Distance in open-source software. press-and-hold-and-drag distance.
File contains additional discussion references to Drag Start Distance in KDE and other open-source software related to Linux O.S.
Deploying remote UI over web using Java: display and application (interface) modules for remote display. Cites to X Over the Web. See also VNC?
Zone Labs: per-application firewall. Mentions intercepting process loading (via kernel hooks?) and checking application details, such as components, version, checksum. Not adaptive, rule-based.
Pen Windows emulation of keyboard input by placing invisible transparent handwriting input window pen-palette over text-entry field, user perception is that writing is directly into the underlying text-entry field. Mouse-hook function detected stylus touch (WM_LBUTTONDOWN) in text field to start. Note: Feature appeared to be less prevalent in later versions of Pen Windows.
Detect multi-touch (double-touch gesture by two fingers) on resistive or other digitizer by noting shift in position from tap by second finger, then position of first finger returning after 2nd finger's tap. Implementation of double-tap gesture to prevent problems of single finger/stylus moving between the taps.
Review of Palm Pilot VII pen/stylus handheld PDA. Includes wireless antenna communications for access to portions of internet via "Web Clipping", wireless email.
Review of Palm Pilot m100 pen/stylus handheld PDA, replacement for Palm III3. Palm OS 3.5, Motorola EZ Dragonball processor. 160x160 DPI display. Plastic display (less breakable). Speaker: no microphone.
Electronic book, with docking/charging station for downloading books. Touch input screen for making notes on displayed text or in margin, copy/digital-rights-management protection. Includes video.
Spam filtering using distributed post offices / mail servers/gateways, which may apply different business/filtering rules.
Translucent windows in GUI so that you can see what is underneath.
Full user guide for DataRover 840 stylus-input PDA, using resistive touchscreen digitizer and stylus. Pop-up virtual keyboard. Electronic ink data annotations and drawing, no handwriting recognition. Numerous screen shots of user interface shows simulated office rooms and objects: compare with Windows "Bob"?
General Magic UI and operating system for tablet/pen computers: Includes flip orientation to rotate screen 180 degrees for left-handed users.
General Magic desktop is picture of desktop with office object: filing cabinet, rolodex, printer, fax, calendar, etc. Compare with Microsoft "Bob".
General Magic development: views are rotatable and flipable in 8 orientations.
General Magic development: SDK/IDE with windows-based simulator for General Magic pen PDAs
Capacitive digitizer using X/Y matrix grid, interpolation between lines.
Capacitive/electrostatic (quasi-electrostatic) signalling through human body. Transmission of signals from devices of one user to devices of another user then shaking hands/in contact. Multiple devices/transmitters can share by using different spread-spectrum pseudo-random codes for signalling. One hand and two-hand (multi-touch) gestures, detect X/Y or 3D position of hands from signals received by receivers on edges of display. If transmitter also display, user touches transmitter with one hand, points/gestures with other.
Capacitive touchscreen using X/Y grid, compute centroid (interpolation) of object in proximity or touching the touchscreen. Has particular algorithm for detecting tap and drag gestures. Refers briefly to multi-finger gestures because entire grid is measured, (and multiple centroids could be detected?) Scrolling speed faster if more pressure (force). Edge motion for scrolling: moving finger to outside margin of touchpad causes scrolling in that direction (for small touchpads).
posting of information on US Patent 5,018,208, "Input Device for Dynamic Signature Verification". Mentions use as a biometric automobile lock, with the benefit that neuromotor effects on handwriting variability would prevent drunk drivers from using their car. Contact information is Kate Gladstone - Handwriting Repair, Albany, NY
Lists members of the GRAIL project at the RAND Corporation: Bill Sibley, Tom Ellis, Gabe Groner (Groener?), Mal Davis
Describes deficiencies of IBM S/360 interrupt processing, and TCBs / Task Control Blocks, to capture electronic ink in real time
All-in-one Email, scheduling, Calendaring and contact-information manager PIM for DOS operating systems. Sales contact forecasting. Auto-dialing (via phone modem) of telephone number in contact database.
Updating a translucent/semi-transparent window
Three-cell (4x8 pin braille display cells) tactile/haptic display built into a mouse, intended as graphical (vs. text) display for the visually impaired/blind. Four (two bits) shades of "grey". System includes speech output / screen reader.
Mouse with tactile feedback, multiple braille-like pins under fingers. One is fiduciary point indicating position of cursor on display, others display surrounding parts of image. Pins can be partially activated for gray scale.
Mouse pointer with two rotary wheel adjusters built-in to set X and Y scale/gain for mouse motion/acceleration, separate from whether OS or application allows for adjusting any mouse-movement parameters
DRM licensing system, secure software application monitor pings / datagrams to license server with requests periodically. Server can reply denying access: if server inaccessible for period of time, access also denied. Datagrams counted for billing. Note: See ContentGuard Google.
HUSAT presentation human factors in user-interface technologies: history to Dimond Stylator and RAND Tablet: speech and handwriting seem natural to humans, but may not be most natural for humans interacting with machines
States that using a sliding window in a recognizer reduces error rate by 50%, but does not give the point of comparison, or the description of how the error was computed (false positive, false negative, etc.)
URL as of 2002: www.lboro.ac.uk/research/husat/news/proj/jn_presentation.html
Data input glove with conductive finger tips and palm, user touches tips to palms for different input signals: one-hand typing.
Smartphone/radiotelephone with video camera and display: display is detachable so that usr can speak privately with rest of the phone.
Put touchscreen on a smartphone/radiotelephone, scroll by dragging finger. User can disable touchscreen (example devices also has phone keypad).
Paper PDA: paper can be used as PDA for information management by scanning in pages of paper, archiving/indexing/processing electronically, and printing out new copy. StickerLink: on-paper hyperlinking using paper stickers with URLs. Paper includes circular registration/identification marks: Compare with Sekendur. Email by scanning, doing handwriting recognition on address field. Compare with Anoto note-taking applications, Slate Pen-Scheduler DayTimer application.
Touch Trackball, Scrolling Touchmouse: used to change UI depending on what user is doing with devices. Mentions tap-and-hold / press-and-hold.
Optical 6-DOF / three-dimensional mouse with optical camera reading encoded grid pattern to determine position, tilt X/Y, rotation (yaw), and Z-height (up to about 1cm from parallax). Camera can also be used as lightweight OCR scanner. Two-handed input by user also rotating mousepad (with pattern) with non-dominant hand.
Add capacitive touchscreen sensor to Cassiopeia E105 Palm-sized PC, and second touch sensor for bezel. User can touch bezel for full-screen display.
Also mentions DENIM, sketch-based web site design tool using pen input. Makes comparisons with NewtonOS, Windows for Pen Computing, PenPoint. Describes sketch editing, and stroke simplification, examples are all the straightening of free-hand line segments in sketches and in characters. hold-select gesture: Holding pen down for a period of time enters select mode. Discusses press-and-hold (tap and hold) in Newton for select. (hold-and-select)
User interface GUI for displaying non-main windows in 3D perspective on the sides, as if they were walls in a room. One advantage is more windows can be seen by user for context. Trapezoidal projection simulating rotation out of the plane of the display. Cursor also resized to simulate distance.
User interface GUI for displaying non-main windows in 3D perspective on the sides, as if they were walls in a room. Also shows circular cyclorama-style wall, rather than room-type walls. Also projection of windows to the "floor". Trapezoidal projection simulating rotation out of the plane of the display. Cursor also resized to simulate distance.
jumbled silver nanowires as replacements for ITO indium tin oxide in touchscreens etc: graphene electrodes in thin film; single-walled carbon nanotubes CNT, metal/silver nanowires. Compare with other wire mesh.
Prototype PDA with voice/speech recognition, touchscreen, and thumb roller user interface (modified Windows CE). Dr Who speech recognition engine. Speech recognition to completely point/tap touchscreen interface (Tap and Talk) pen touch selects objects and context, start/stop microphone, speech for text entry.
digital pen / stylus for IBM ThinkPad TransNote laptop with ThinkScribe digital notepad tablet. Says little more than to read the on-computer Help files.
Third-party camera hardware module for Palm PDAs, plugs into expansion slot, PDA becomes a hand-held camera with display screen.
VOIP internet network phone service on Palm VII using NetPhoneCard
Comprehensive electronics and computer dictionary, IEEE, 2000.
Sketch recognition, drawing program converts rough lines to splined/mesh during drawing, for sketching 3D three dimensional images such as cartoons. Cites to Zeleznik, Landay. Cited in Arvo00
Sketch-based editing of freehand drawing: dragging and pulling operations on lines and line segments: stroke-based architecture for electronic whiteboards. Refers to "predictive drawing" for sketch editing/editor.
Cites Unistroke character recognition, Cirrin and Quickwriting zone-based menu picking, mentions learning problem for gestures (see Greanias?)
Pantographic/mechanical 3D digitizer system. Primarily used for digitizing solid objects, medical modelling: no force feedback/haptic output
Pen computer using Windows 95 for Pen Computing / PenWindows 2.0: Pen Services 2.0, running on Windows 98 (later than Windows 95). "Lens" field for enabling text buttons in input fields. Adjustable area/distance for double-tap distance. Pen Recognition services include also CIC PenX Recognition. Shows gesture macro editor for assigning macros to PenWindows (1.0?) circle gestures consisting of circled letters: compare to Recognition macros of Pencept PenPad series. Toolbar option for right mouse click: compare to Wang "Guide". PenX include Recognition Tuner to allow user to select which supported shapes appear in user's writing style, but not to train recognizer. Compare to recognizer in PalmOS for selection of shape prototypes. ActiveX Pen Controls, PenWindows 2.0 pop-up virtual keyboard from Start/Programs/Pen Services.
Document is in two portions.
Pen computer using Windows 95 for Pen Computing / PenWindows 2.0. Includes definitions of SYSTEM.INI and WINDOWS.INI for Windows 3.1 to enable Windows for Pen Computing: pkrotate.drv
Report on graduate-level course program on computer security: reference monitor as example -- all accesses protected, access mediation tamperproof, subject to mathematical proof of correctness. Note: military students do not participate in design. Cites to Saltzer 1975 as seminal/classic reference on computer security / trusted systems.
Describes attempt to re-construct dynamic information of on-line handwriting recognition from off-line static images: mentions Travelling Salesman Problem as part of algorithm.
Abstract says this would allow merging of recognition methods between off-line and on-line algorithms, but does not mention any results
Full text of thesis (at end) says they do not deal with pen-lifts or segmentation, assume one character at a time
handwriting recognition: Mentions normalizing size, inclination, and rotation; computing baselines; also refers to general problem of resampling to make points equidistant in space, and Bezier interpolation of "missing" points; Note: removes delayed strokes (e.g. crossing of a "T"). Compare with elastic matching by Tappert?
Handwriting recognition using very large word dictionary: claims 91.2% recognition rate using 50000 word dictionary: tree-pruning to avoid exhaustive search
Project management and organization system.
Algorithm for rotating (tiled) texture pattern when an object is rotated, so that there are no breaks in the texture when you try to do it with horizontal tiling of a supertile in the rotated image/object.
Overview of Steganography, including historical. Modifying bitmaps, color palettes on GIF image (S-Tools, StegoDos Black Wolf's Picture Encoder v0.90B, Jpeg-Jsteg V4, PictureMarc, SureSign). Frequency modification in audio files. StegoKeys, Stegomessage.
C++ Standard template library, 1999. auto_ptr, reference counting. Cites to Boost C++ template library.
See papers on DRM in Digital Library System. Digital works/objects signed to verify authenticity, rights and permissions associated with work via ID handle. Focuses on agreements on legal rights (copyright, distribution, negotiated rights, etc.), electronic enforcement.
Visual impaired / low vision / blind can draw, but need tactile feedback to do it in a computer user interface. Grid-based model to provide audio (speech) feedback on position and features.
HP OmniGo HP95a: Screen image rotation (portrait/landscape orientation) in a handheld PDA by interchanging row and column lines.
Handwriting recognition user interface: show different cursors (alpha/num/upper-case/etc.) in text entry before user writes, so that user only need to look at one place to see both mode and text cursor position. Note: separate writing and text area, not direct text input / direct manipulation.
Gesture/sketch/text pen-computer user interface on graphics tablet, automatically classify recognition based on priorities of recognizers. Compare with W4PC?
Electromagnetic grid digitizer tablet, signal from tablet causes multiple pens or objects to resonate at different frequencies, simultaneous detection of distinct pointing devices (multi-touch)
Programming guide for Pen computing on Windows platforms: post-Pen-Windows. PenRight! controls, Visual Basic 4.0 and 5.0, PowerSoft Powerbuilder, VBX Pen Edit controls, (16-bit and 32-bit), 32-Bit Pen API, Pen-aware and pen-unaware applications, CIC InkTools for handwriting recognition for Windows. Microsoft Pen Extensions 1.0 for Windows 3.1, Microsoft Pen Services 2.0 for Windows95, CIC PenX for Windows NT.
Vibration Touch: tactile haptic feedback, both click and vibration. Different vibration patterns for different operations (vibrate, one-shot click, pull-down slow click) via solenoid mount in touchscreen.
Cellphone/smartphone with digital camera and portable computer: compare with Palm telephone with photo attachment? Video?
Commentary on Goldberg Unistroke patent case: asserts that much of handwriting recognition technology prior art was done in 1960's, not known to U.S. Patent Office. Cites GRAIL system by Groner as Unistroke recognition: mentions QuikWriting and Ledeen recognizer
Acoustic surface (shear?) wave touchscreen, waves are sent diagonally or along non-orthogonal axes, e.g. three 60-degree axes. May use angled reflectors in edge transducers or sensors. Thus can discriminate multiple-touches both for ambiguity, or reliable multi-touch input.
ITO deposited on glass by vapor deposition, controlling for electrical and optical properties: optical transmission, reflectance, refractive index, band gap (color/tint).
Optical Translation Measurement, motion detection, basis for OTM Technologies optical digitizer pen, development by GOU Lite Ltd for coherent encodings for one-two- or three-dimensional motion (stepper motor? servomotor? See Teledyne/TAC file)
Light sensor for determining polarization using two stacked sensors with orthogonal polarization. Used in OTM/VPen?
Augmented reality: read GPS location from smartphone/PDA, user takes image of nearby store/scene/landmark: database matches image to known images near that location, return URL (e.g. menu page for a restaurant)
Use one scroll/level bar to show level of whatever parameter is being adjusted: e.g. if adjusting volume (via icon), shows volume level, if checking battery (icon), shows battery level, contrast adjustment on laptop from keyboard.
User-interface linking of graphical areas on one display to graphical areas in another display
Handheld device with touchscreen or smartphone rotates display landscape/portrait based on pressure sensors indicating how it is being held in the hand.
Prototype small information device about the size of a large USB stick, small display and three-button user interface. Optical camera for 2D barcode/matrix code. Pick up information / deposit information / select-menu. User points at object (digital slide display, web page or document on PC, post-it- note with digital pattern) to transfer to laptop, printer, etc. For larger display of information than fit on small screen, plug into base station. Can be used as pointing device on LDC display.
Optical tablet sensing for digital desk: describes template matching for detecting multiple fingertips and hand for multitouch.
Wearable computer with video conference communication between field technicians, with speaker phone, or field technician and remote advisor/expert.
scroll text to match user's reading speed, using head/eye position. Inclused acceleration and stop zones.
Pressure-sensitive conductive rubber: semiconductor particles in elastic, organic polymer binder: assigned to Tekscan
Self-evaluation of success/skill: subjects who know more or are more skilled, recognize their own performance more conservatively than low-skilled subjects. To paraphrase: a real expert will be more cautious in claiming to know exactly what is going on, because the real expert knows about the additional factors that may come into play, and what complex interactions can happen. Whereas a person who knows less will be more likely think they have it all figured out, because that person does not know about the other things they should include in their thinking, or that there might be additional ways they could interact.
Marking menus: pen-still (press-and-hold) gesture brings up menu. Flick gesture involves command without pop-up menu. Detects press-and-hold with movement and time-out thresholds.
Large menus by combining menubar, accelerator keys, modal dialog, pop-up menus, radial/pie marking menus, and menubars
Background information on WinTab specification, originated at 1991 Autodesk conference to define vendor-neutral device driver specification for digitizing tablets
Passive stylus for capacitive touchscreen using transcapacitance: conductive foam on tip of stylus increases capacitive effect by deforming to cover more area.
On-line works better than off-line, so simulate stroke order (and direction of strokes?) to recover time-order of the handwriting. See also VisionObjects commercial development.
On laptop or touchscreen computer, rotate windows of a given application for landscape/portrait orientation, but other applications can stay in the orientation best suited for that particular application.
For motion-handicapped users (cerebral palsy), vibrotactile/vibrating haptic feedback not helpful, but force-feedback feedback is. Feedback prototypes use Immersion Technologies and SensAble Technologies devices.
List of Alumni from GO Corporation: original list no longer available
Reference on ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation One encoding (1984), ASCII syntax representation for arbitrary data, XER standard (XML Encoding Rules); binary and extended forms.
Project management and organization system.
Multiple-hand / multiple-touch user interface study: using two hands allows simultaneous manipulation of scale and zoom and position, versus one hand with menu/tool selection. WACOM two-stylus (puck and stylus) tablet used in study prototype.
"shakepad": Accellerometer in keychain fob, 2D drawing program. Refers to keychain such as Tamagotchi computers distinct from PDAs with touchscreens. Compare with accelerometers in PDAs (e.g. iPhone), WII hand-held input device.
TCP/IP reference for Cisco products. Includes internetworking with IPv6
Study of virtual predictive keyboard of IBM Simon marketed by BellSouth: text used for vocabulary/probability tables should be adaptive, or at least should reflect vocabulary of user application.
Study of virtual predictive keyboard of IBM Simon marketed by BellSouth: showed that standard keyboard, even small, was faster than either predictive keyboard or handwriting. Cites that fast handwriting is about 25 wpm words per minute. Did not study graffiti/unistrokes or other later methods, but disadvantages were attributed to cognitive load of unfamiliar/unpracticed data input skill compared to standard keyboard.
5x5 keyboard layout for touchscreen virtual keyboard: keys not alphabetical, positioned for closeness based on di-gram frequency in English text.
Pen-Book-Page-Paper stylus UI system for mobile systems, with universal gestures: research prototype in China. Cites Wintab.
Lexical constraint / dictionary for handwriting recognition context: uses directed acyclic word graph DAWG instead of trie tree-structure
Sketch editing with limited gestures, uses barrel button on stylus to change mode/function: compare to Recognition Macros of Pencept with AutoCad and other applications
Study of satisfaction of PDA users (Apple Newton, PalmPilot) on gestures: users preferred gestures as user interface on touch screen, want to define own gestures by example, not tolerant of recognition errors. Test recognizer uses Rubine algorithm.
Fujitsu rubberized/ruggedized pen computer running WindowsCE. Mentions pen tablets (portable handwriting computers) running Windows NT.
Internet Access Device stand-alone touchscreen/tablet computer for accessing the internet.
32-subject comparison of Microsoft (Pen Windows 2.0?) and CIC Handwriter 3.3 handwriting recognizers. Also mentions Unistroke, Graffiti (original, not CIC) and T-Cube unistroke handwriting recognition: T-Cube from Apple uses pie menus. Zhao incremental recognition. Interface characteristics (subsetting, context) have significant effect on performance.
Study of soft/virtual keyboard layout: QWERTY keyboard better than "optimal" keyboard layout at first (familiarity?), optimal keyboard only slightly better over time. Testing on Windows for Pen Computing / Pen Windows, WACOM integrated touchscreen and display. Also mentions Unistroke, Graffiti (original, not CIC) and T-Cube unistroke handwriting recognition: T-Cube from Apple uses pie menus. Zhao incremental recognition. Interface characteristics (subsetting, context) have significant effect on performance.
Haptic feedback in doorknob (everyday object): force, motion, heat/temperature, sound. Speculative uses include gesture motion on doorknob as an input password, whether inside lights are on/off, whether someone is/has been in room.
Integrated tablet and display touchscreen from Wacom PL500, pressure sensitive (actually force-sensitive) stylus, mis-called pressure sensitive tablet, price about $3000
Windows CE, small touchscreen hand-held computer/PDA
Toolkit for using context or providing additional UI features to handle ambiguous recognition or misclassification, including interactively in a graphical user interface: gestures, sketch recognition, annotation/recognition, sketches of UI elements (buttons, checkboxes, etc.). (mediation). Cites to soft keyboard on Newton MessagePad, Microsoft Pen for Windows (sic: Windows fro Pen Computing), Undo, "Put-that-there".
Technical dictionary 1999
Palm Pilot user interface: separate handwriting areas for alphabetic and for numeric/arithmetic character recognition, or other multiple character sets.
Whiteboard system using a projection display with a touch-screen digitizer. Multiple pens/stylus, eraser.
Tap, Tap-Drag and other gestures for emulating mouse button gesture (click-and-drag, etc.). Touchpad using two sheets and a resistance-changing material between. Critiques indirect measure of force/pressure (capacitive area) vs. direct measurements of force in a digitizer/touchpad for pressure/force input for scrolling and acceleration.
Automatically rotate all windows and objects in a portable computer screen when computer is rotated, including particularly rotated. Uses accelerometer or level sensor. Includes rotation of all windows.
Ken Knowlton 1950s. Primarily generation of computer graphics, mentions SketchPad with light pen, but not Stylator or Rand Tablet. Computer animation and CGI.
Predictive keyboard: predicted words for auto completion are taken from a dictionary and displayed.
Resistive/capacitive touchscreen detecting multi-touches by shift in position. First touch (thumb) is fixed, sets one point, other touch (stylus) is other point and can be moved, for rotation and other gestures.
Red Hat Linux command line, user interface user guide
mural bar and pile bar: information about entries in lists are encoded with highlighting marks into trough/slider of a scrollbar, compare with Russian patent by Gorbunov
Study of force feedback in cursor control / scrollbar: hardware was PHANToM by SensAble Technologies, mechanical actuators to pen-like or thimble-like user input device.
Note on 2D electromechanical pointing device with force feedback: Design dates to 1994, Commercial products are mouseCAT and PenCat/Pro from Haptic Technologies, Inc.
Accessibility for visually impaired/blind for touchscreen or mouse: auditory feedback of position, and graphical elements in quadrants of a specified radius around the cursor. Uses stereo/binaural sound.
General hardware overview of PC: DOS, OS/2, Windows NT. Mentions mouse as oldest kind of pointing device, and equivalence of pointing devices (joystick, trackball, etc.)
PKI encryption for sealed bids in an on-line auction process. Check CertCo?
Mouse-driver and configuration/calibration software for MicroTouch Touchware tablet, Microsoft Windows. First copyright is 1997.
Electrostatic/capacitive touchscreen: states accuracy as "97%" (??), 190 points/second data rate.
Pen/tablet drivers use special interface for higher data rate than mouse driver, special display driver for displaying electronic ink
General Reference computer dictionary (Microsoft)
#include definitions file for Windows for Pen Computing Version 2.0 -- 1996. CompactPenData tablet data information includes pressure (force), height (proximity), angle x/Y, angle Z, barrel rotation, compress or uncompressed. Gestures include select, clip (cut/copy/paste), whitespace (space, tab, return), edit/autocorrect, upper and lower case circle: different definitions for Japan. Further gestures select first/left/right/last, clear, help, insert context menu ("M"), undo ("U"), cut/copy/paste ("x","c","p", circle a-z and circle A-Z gesture
See also penwin.h for version 2.0
Windows CE programming and user interface guide.
Technical dictionary
Video from audience of Tablet PC product announcement at Comdex 2000. Features shown are electronic ink and note-taking, no demonstration of gestures, handwriting recognition. Shows Tablet PC propped up on a table with small stereo speakers attached.
Distribution CD with knowledge base, other technical documentation for Windows systems (Windows 3.1, 95, NT, etc.), October 2000
Scan displayed text with pattern matching to find phone numbers, addresses, etc., to highlight them and turn them into active links or buttons, clickable with a stylus. See also patents 5,519,867, 6,275,983, 5,481,721, 5,566,337, RE 39,486 of 6,212,575, 6,343,263, 5,969,705, 5,929,852, 5,915,131
Forms-based pen-computing application for field sales. Note: port of PenPoint to MobiePoint OS / re-boot.
Overfiew of digital watermarking and steganography as subset of information hiding, steganography vs. cryptography. Examples from digital images, not audio, multimedia, etc. Historical citations to Herodotus, Iliad, Indian literature.
Watermarking / hidden signature in Java code by adding a dummy method, and recoding opcodes for arithmetic operations to represent the signature data. Cites to code obfuscators, method is robust when obfuscated.
When selecting objects with a drag rectangle, take into account temporal/time when objects were created by user -- user mostly likely wants to select objects created together in time. Uses threshold time to determine direction of reversing motion in a "wipe" (swipe?) gesture.
Logging on to a computer system for access using a smart card cryptographic token and a public certificate for the identity of the user. See MAZ Lenovo.
Optical/Vision based pen-computing tablet, pen tracking by watching position of pointed stylus, pen/stylus up/down detection by checking for ink on paper, and for coincidence of shadow with object. Signature verification. Disambiguation of stylus tip from finger based on sharpness of end.
Electronic file includes powerpoint slide of thesis defense
Future UIs will employ recognition-based UIs (gestures?); dissimilarity of mouse-based vs. stylus vs. gesture UIs not equivalent
Portable computer (with touchscreen and stylus): rotate layout of screen as device is rotated, for landscape/portrait. Shows layout being re-generated automatically (text flow). Physical orientation determined from how display is connected.
Experimental system for bi-manual/two-handed (multi-touch) user interface in windowing system using two mice (relative position)
Description of Netscape 4.x user interface, including back icon with press gesture: press-and-hold.
Video camera for live scanning and capture of paper documents while user working on electronic document. Cites to Wellner, others. Shows algorithm for skew/tilt correction using horizontal projection profiles.
General reference on cryptography/PKI practice
Nokia 9110 Communicator smartphone: cellphone in outer cover, opens landscape-clamshell to show keyboard and display. Calendar, Document editing, Fax, Contact address book, Email, WWW browser. No mouse/touchscreen, keyboard navigation only.
Slide to unlock via tap-and-drag drag-lock gesture.
Keyboard handwriting input to arbitrary programs, using transparent overlay window for input. Cites to Wang "Guide", Slate PenApps. Compare with transparent overlay inking window in Pen Windows?
OmniVision OV7620 Single-Chip CMOS VGA color digital camera, OV6620 OV6120 CIF color and B/W digital video cameras
Includes lens?
Capacitive/electrostatic (uses term electrostatic) touch sensors on furniture for active furniture -- M.I.T. Media Lab. Tabletop projected image on lazy-susan. 5x6 quasi-static capacitive sensor matrix on placement recognizes finger vs. palm gestures by area of contact.
Virtual reality 3-D gestures including zoom (with two fingers of one hand), spotlight (using zoom), lock and unlock gestures. Using a gesture for unlock?
Electromechanical 3D musical user interface, bed of rods. Cites to FingerWorks and TacTex multi-touch input touchscreens.
(in German) product review of Husky ruggedized PC with Windows 95, using touchscreen (stylus with side button) instead of mouse.
Functional device: 3Com Palm Vx PDA running General Magic / MagicCap OS 3.1. Touchscreen: No separate keyboard. Includes CDs.
Resistive-film PDA with wireless email via Palm.Net wireless service (pre-smartphone). Web browsing support via webclipping.
Resistive-film PDA with wireless email via Palm.Net wireless service (pre-smartphone). Web browsing support via webclipping.
User manual for Palm PDA with resistive-film touchscreen. Graffiti handwriting recognition, User selects character subset (numeric, alphabetic, etc.), pop-up virtual keyboard, electronic ink notes. Wireless network connectivity for email?
Stroke keyboard UI: touch in center of button (e.g. phone button), stroke in different directions to get different characters. Compare with marking menus keyboard of Buxton, Kurtenbach, etc.
Recognize text (phone numbers, dates) in text, then perform operations on those pattern instances detected: e.g. pop-up menu for Send Mail / Add to Address Book. Highlighting of text by patterns, then clickable?
Touchscreen/touch sensors for large surfaces: laser scanning rangefinder to track multiple hands; acoustic tap detection using differential time-of-arrival; piezoelectric wire to detect location and pressure (force), RFID tag reader for flock-of-birds of multiple tags in 3D three-dimensional coordinates. Gesture Wall with capacitively-coupled sensor to signal in body. Cites to Softboard for tracking multiple targets, computer vision for hand-tracking. Mentions conductive plastic as alternative to ITO for transparent touchscreen digitizers. Mentions Fingerworks multi-touch and and glidepoint
phase-measuring laser rangefinder to create large multitouch (multiple hand tracking) touchscreen on large wall. Multimedia demonstrations
Encrypt document in sections so that user can fetch only the sections of interest from a document server.
Palm Pilot III touchscreen device with wireless LAN radio. File contains additional documentation.
Palm VII device with wireless LAN radio.
QuikWriting: refers specifically to it as using zones, ergo zone-based recognition, but the "writing" is not normal characters, it is a circular menu, no stylus-lift.
See also press announcement "Look Ma, One Hand!" from Microsoft
Assign vibrating alert patterns (haptic vibration) to particular calls or numbers in a cell phone
Pen computer with no tablet: senses position by a "motion sensor" without special writing surface (Compare Anoto?), shows text (recognized?) on small display in housing of (thick) pen. Display flips orientation (rotate 180 degrees) for left-hand and right-hand usage. Compare with Anoto pen?
Reference manual on Windows "C" Win32 API circa 1999. Described two and three-button mouse, WM_LBUTTON, WM_MBUTTON, WM_RBUTTON messages (p 275), Synchronous nature of messages in event que (p 329), system message queue
Technical dictionary of computer terms 2000
Compare with Tappert/Suen survey articles on state-of-the-art in handwriting recognition for 1980 and 1990. Mentions Writer Identification (signature verification and identification), language models for incorporating grammar and dictionary models.
Casio PB-100 scientific computer / palmtop with full keyboard, BASIC; Casio VDB-1000 touch-screen / touch sensitive wrist-watch computer; Casio IF-8000 touchscreen pocket computer, electronic ink on screen, second touch pad buttons for calculator / alphabetic 1987; Casio NX-6000 Planeo touchscreen only palmtop, no physical keyboard; Sharp IQ-9200 touchscreen calculator, hierarchic list manager; full keyboard; Apple Newton Message Pad 110 PDA; NEC PC Engine GT / Turbo Express; Index portable keyboard-less / touchscreen computer with FM-Radio receiver, radio modem, GPS.
Fetched 1999, re-fetched (water damage to print copy) from internetarchive.org, 2014
Sharp IQ-9200 also sold as OZ-9600 mk II? See also IQ-8920
Produce review of Paragraph Calligrapher 5.3 handwriting recognition: full sentence run-on connected writing, not trainable, include pop-up keyboard for corrections and "special characters". Mentions confusion of single-stroke "1" and "I" (compare with Shillman?)
3D three-dimensional graphical editing using 2D touchscreen or mouse input user interface. To maximize viewing of 3D image on display, tools can be iconized, toolbars are transparent.
"No-Soap Radio" from M.I.T. Media Laboratory. Conductive metallic thread (organza) woven into fabric: fabric touch keyboard using matrix, conductive threads pressed to touch each other -- phantom contacts with multiple keys. Also capacitive keypads/touchscreen/touchpads. Organza: decorative silk thread wrapped in thin gold helix. Discussion of fabrication, stitching techniques for conductive yarn, other materials. Relate with multi-touch capacitive sensing.
Guide for KDE Desktop Environment/window manager for Linux/Unix
Pressure-sensing 3D surface digitizer, translucent elastomer layer on clear rigid faceplate, flexible white layer on top. Pressing on surface is visible from underneath where translucent elastomer is compressed thinner. Capable of multi-touch?
Touchscreen (with rear projection), determine position optically by detecting Schlieren changes in polarization or other optical effects of force applied to (semi-)transparent screen. Multipoint (multi-touch). Force/pressure by degree of distortion. Tactile feedback -- actual touching of surface -- or vibration, inflatable bladders, air blasts, etc. Separate section uses optical targets on user's body: glove, hat, etc.
Psion clamshell Palm-top (a bit large) with half-sized touchscreen and full-size abbreviated keyboard. Sketch drawing program, images can be inserted into Word documents. Voice note audio recording.
History of Psion palm-top computers: original Organiser (PDA) with one line display. Later HC with modified DOS operating system. Series 5 in 1997..1999 with touchscreen, multi-tasking OS. Series 7 with touchscreen September 1999 included JVM Java machine for active web browsing pages.
Handbook for applications on Qualcomm pdQ PALM/OS smartphone: address book, calculator, call history, dialer, email, expenses, modem emulation, browser . Calibration of digitizer / touchscreen (refers to "digitizer"). Gestures using upper-case alphabetics. One-touch dialing gesture. Refers to handwriting (write) input.
User manual for Qualcomm pdQ PALM/OS smartphone: address book, calculator, call history, dialer, email, expenses, modem emulation, browser . Calibration of digitizer / touchscreen (refers to "digitizer"). Gestures using upper-case alphabetics. One-touch dialing gesture. Refers to handwriting (write) input.
Radiotelephone/smartphone with separate earpiece/headphone and microphone. Include video camera and video display, infra-red link.
Introduction to Octave: MATLAB clone
User interfaces for seamless integration of displays/computers via hyperdragging: integrate portable/small computer (pen computer, etc.) with larger display (virtually/physically adjacent) by dragging to edge of small computer, appears then in larger display. Larger display can be InfoWall Wellner-like desktop for integration with physical objects, or extension from desktop to InfoWall display. Used to link electronic files (e.g. annotations) to recognized physical object (e.g. book). Prototype uses 2D barcode marker/tags on physical objects for identification/targeting on Wellner desktop. Windows can be moved from laptop to InfoWall or InfoTable via hyperdragging off the original device onto the other.
3D virtual reality system over a network, similar in style to Second Life or MOOGs.
ToolStone: Small cube with 6 DOF 3D digitizer inside, used to simulate multiple (multi-use) input devices depending on which side is touched "down": french curve, eraser, etc. Bi-manual multi-touch input combined with stylus of Wacom tablet,
History and interview with Alan Kay on Dynabook. Refers to Sketchpad electronic ink (?) graphics editing. Lengthy discussion of Dynabook, but all references are to mouse (not stylus/tablet) and keyboard, no mention of handwriting recognition.
Physical/mechanical guide template, like those used for drifting lettering, as a guide to the correct writing of cursive script.
Compare to restricted templates for doing Unistroke characters within a small mechanical box
Research group investigating various whiteboard systems for university instruction and remote education, using commercial products. Real-time participation in class using web browser, including interactive audio and video streams.
Small PDA device, with address book / phone numbers. PC sync.
Pantographic 3-D stylus digitizer, including menu input by pantographic stylus, menu in work area.
Resource/training notes on JAWS screen readers for visually impaired, description of features. Notes the particular difficulty of screen reader organization with Windows 95, compared to outSpoken on Macintosh. Loading bitmap recognizer to assign labels to unrecognized icons.
Capacitive grid tablet digitizer, senses capacitance changes at intersections in grid. Measures entire area of contact from multiple intersection nodes simultaneously (multi-touch). Produces profile of finger contact, multi-finger gestures. Infers pressure from outline of contact.
Dual-handed input and manipulation of 3D graphics: user has both a 3D stylus/pen and a transparent touchscreen panel (a "prop") with 3D position sensors: stereoscopic images (shutter glasses) projected on surface: user can look through panel (tools and lenses, including MagicLens) are projected to appear to be on the panel, and use the tools on the 3D objects projected beneath. Described as Augmented *Virtual* reality: physical objects incorporated into VR image. Cites to MagicLens, Responsive Workbench. Ascension Flock of Birds 3D/6DOF sensors.
Smartphone, PDA other devices adapt UI user interface to context of environment or user action: sensor for orientation change orientation of display (orientation-aware), ambient light for contrast, etc. Shows screen orientation of Apple Newton, but notes that it was not much used by users. Has picture of landscape/portrait on Newton.
Review of Wireless/smartphone communication circa 1999, including wireless internet access, wireless teleconferencing including web browser by DEC Mobile Computing and Communications Appliance, and Deutsch Telekom. Front cover: stylus/pen smartphone -- IBM Simon? Video: p. 126 and front cover
Touchscreen user interface for audio outputs: make icon larger for louder, move graphical object to change balance. Compare with Buxton audio control panel?
Lists publications and patents by Plamondon, Privitera, Guerfali, Djezire, Nouboud, Barriere, Parizeau, Clergeau-de-Tournemire, Leclerc, Sabourin, Beaumier, Brault, Yergeau, Suen, Chouinard, Lorette, Clement, Stelmach, Schomaker, Baron, Beauregard, Gagne, Robillard, Poussart, etc.
Signature verification, electronic ink data compression formats, Human recognition accuracy, Fuzzy syntax for script recognition, normalization of handwritten characters, more
Essay reviewing graphical user interfaces, including position input, no mention of gestures or handwriting recognition. Speaks to advantages of pie menus (gestures)
On-screen keyboard, rectangular grid display, intended for severely handicapped users. Any pointing device may be used -- e.g. head-mounted pointer, does select on "dwell" gestures as substitute for touch or mouse click.
User interface for photographs, more recent images are larger and in front. User can tap/select images. Larger images have more options available for labeling and editing. Mouse input.
Overview and tutorial for technologies for copyright protection for digital documents and information sources. Notes that digital signatures (PKI) awkward for data subject to modification by compression, etc. Watermark identifies originator, fingerprint identifies intended recipient, PKI/signatures authenticate origin, integrity of content, non-repudiation of origin, and confidentiality (encryption). Discussion of ownership assertion and rights management.
Annotate/label personal photo collections by drag/drop of names onto correct part of image, and into list boxes on sides, etc. Mouse or touch screen (direct manipulation), text values only ever entered first time of use via keyboard.
Linux command and user interface user guide
FieldMouse: pen-mouse combined with bar-code reader. Determines position from known location of bar-code ID, then determines absolution position by extrapolation from mouse-sensed relative movement. Example is active book, children's book with barcode tags in pictures (infra-red ink?). Compare with Anoto.
Automatic layout in user interface of a pick/menu list for touch screen input, with appropriate spacing for targeting.
Scrolling and window re-size areas in user interface window for touchscreen
Abstract refers to transparent sensing surface over display, electronik ink, character recognition, and learning mode
Abstract reads almost identically to Sklarew patent 4,972,496: this one refers to "terminal disclaimer"
Very long list of prior art
Abstract refers to transparent sensing surface over display, electronik ink, character recognition, and learning mode
Abstract reads almost identically to Sklarew patent 4,972,496: this one refers to "terminal disclaimer"
Specific to learning mode where adaptive recognition must be taught from initial state
Abstract refers to transparent sensing surface over display, electronik ink, character recognition, and learning mode
Abstract reads almost identically to Sklarew patent 4,972,496: this one refers to "terminal disclaimer"
actions are confirmed specifically by reverse-video of the field operated upon
Early smartphone/communicator prototype, included web server and servlets, pcAnywhere, Phone dialer (OTS software), browser for wireless communications. Display video, touchscreen interface.
CMU Carnegie Mellon Wearable Computers: wireless phone (smartphone) with full-motion video.
Electric field/capacitive sensing/imaging, sections on synchronous detection methods, spread spectrum, signal processing. Not directly about tablets or digitizer, examples of capacitive field sensing for hand and body parts in various applications. LaZmouse: 3D locator/pointing device not requiring user to hold the mouse. See also FishFace (general electric field proximity/position sensor.)
Electric field/capacitive sensing/imaging. Review of touchpad and proximity capacitive sensing projects: LazyFish sensing board, School of Fish, NEC Passenger Sensing product Active Seat (airline), 3D/6DOF FieldMouse shows interpolating positions of two hands. FishFace touch/display device, Active Table,
Capacitive (or other) field sensing (applicable to tablets) using multiple modulated signals, demodulated at back end. CDMA spread-spectrum gives more consistent noise rejection than TDMA modulation. Implementation is "LazyFish" electronics board. Compare with synchronous demodulation in Blesser, Rekimoto?
Two-dimensional input with handwriting recognition for mathematics: features include showing parsing in real-time, with an eight stroke delay, showing bounding boxes on all characters/groupings as an aid to user understanding parsing. User can edit strokes, select alternate recognition results, and edit grouping/parsing of strokes.
Functional device: Sony DataRover 840 PDA running General Magic / MagicCap OS 3.1. Touchscreen: No separate keyboard. Includes CD.
Review of early 1999 release of Palm VII, with live internet connections: email, multimedia, WAP-handy (cellphone)
Video camera, display, microphone in eyeglasses. One use us is hands-free cellphone. Compare with Google Glasses.
Excerpts, Chapters 3, 4, 8. Essays on digital rights management and digital payments via Internet.
Stefik: Chapter 3. The Digital Wallet and the Copyright Box. The Coming Arms Race in Trusted Systems.
Stefik: Chapter 4. The Bit and the Pendulum. Balancing the Interests of Stakeholders in Digital Publishing.
Stefik: Chapter 8. The Digital Keyhole. Privacy Rights and Trusted Systems.
Multiple users sharing single display (whiteboard), but from separate workstations/PDAs with touchscreen. Asks question about accessibility using audio output for the blind/visually impaired for groupware/whiteboard.
i-LAND/BEACH: InteracTable touchscreen tabletop (rear projection), DynaWall. Shows windows rotated on tabletop display for varying user perspectives/orientation around table. Gesture input, Objects may be moved from one display to another via take-and-put or pick-and-drop. Virtual location is cooperation via system regardless of user physical location.
Video of InteracTable and related devices.
scanning laser rangefinder for tracking multiple hands (multipoint touchscreen) in front of large rear-projected display wall. Refers to Gesture Wall, smart wallboards (whiteboards) with handwriting tracking. Tracking/rangefinding by triangulation, time-of-flight (speed of light delays measured), continuous wave phase.
Summary of C++ object-based programming language. Abstraction mechanisms, Standard Library, namespaces and exception handling for large-scale programming, comparison with "C" programming model. Describes principles of development behind C++ (rationale).
Short overview of pen-computing: refers to ultrasonic/acoustic digitizer, also barcodes like that of Anoto but different. Gives limiting factors for acoustic/sonic digitizer, at 50 dpi due to air currents, etc. Optical pattern digitizer building up mosaic of images from normal paper: not clear that they ever actually evaluated such a device
Packet of GWMicro outSpoken for windows and Office 2000: supporting older Windows versions in 2014.
outSpoken screen reader for MacIntosh, speaks icons and user interface elements
Physical protocols for Synaptics Touchpad interfaces: PS/2 mouse, Serial RS-232C tablet, ADB Apple Macintosh. Optional dual sensing of pen and touch (capPen). Gestures for scrolling, mouse-button emulation (tapping) implemented in driver, tap-and-a-half drag gesture. Because of tap timing (time-out, no second tap) simulated mouse clicks are generated after a slight time delay. Edge Motion: movement to edge generates continuing motion in same direction. Hop gestures are two taps separate left or right. Drag gesture is tap-lift-hold (tap-and-a-half)
optical-fiber multi-touch controller, shows map of fingertip images for five fingers as part of installation verification. Normalization process to calibrate touch response (taxel == touch pixel) with interpolation for higher resolution. "C" API reference.
3D three-dimensional input, using trackball (3D orientation) on top of joystick (X/Y) and up/down buttons (Z position)
Interfacing a haptic device/display with a virtual reality environment, using a model of the compound objects of the virtual reality environment. Many references.
Annotation/sticky notes for Palm OS touchscreen computer: intercepts all text fields (field contains a special code), adds transparent rectangular overlay/window for electronic ink notes, via HackMaster systems extension. Can be activated by one-letter graffiti stroke/gesture. Note garbage-collection problem of "orphan notes" when original record is deleted, ink data still in database. On-screen ink editing (erase) or edit ink data images directly using TealPaint.
TealScript replacement for Graffiti handwriting recognition on Palm touchscreen computer: trainable recognition, matches to example strokes in user profile (elastic matching?) User can also adjust match thresholds ("squelch"). Notes incompatibility with other 3rd party application that patch (hook) into the Palm OS.
LabVIEW example: Virtual instrument for power management, shows data flow architecture of components.
Caldera/Microsoft suit concerning intentional incompatibilities in MS-DOS add-ons (e.g. SmartDrive) to detect DR-DOS an block usage. AARD test, additional tests in SmartDrv.
one-dimensional linear touchpad, pressure sensitive material. Placement next to keyboard, use for inputting linear quantities.
Overview of wireless smartphones circa 2000: OmniSky Palm Vx with NovAtel wireless modem, Palm VII, Spring PCS Wireless Web, NeoPoint 1000 RIM 950 Wireless handheld. Some use touchscreen but not cited in article.
Includes overview/survey of sketch input systems: electronic cocktail napkin, Bill Buxton. Compares mouse to drawing with a brick, pressure-sensitive tablet and use of tilt in user interface.
Gesture recognition, but primarily about hand and body gestures, not tablet/stylus gesture recognition for a computer GUI. One review section on Pen-based Gesture Recognition. PenPoint/GO is notable by not being mentioned: author's address is at Microsoft Research. Only citation before 1991 is to Sketchpad.
Source of Jaeger abstracts on handwriting recognition: lip-reading, speech recognition and UIs mostly.
indexing of electronic ink notes without character recognition: most common groupings / index term clusters (or dominant groupings, appear like titles?) are put into hyperlink table with page numbers.
Collection of early Unigraphics tablet/pointing devices: Textronix Data Tablet, Spaceball three-dimensional joystick/pointing device, UGDD Unigraphics Detail Drafting tablet overlay, showing menus for keystroke macros (CAD UI menus on tablet digitizer) or GRIP programs, McDonnel Douglas
multiple simultaneous touches used for touch-sensitive keyboard with chording: one-handed keyboard using multiple key depressions -- touch-tone keyboard layout, or for one-hand PDA-type device. Any kind of multi-touch sensor may be used. Automatic registration of fingers by having space (most frequent character) be all four fingers.
multiple simultaneous touches used for touch-sensitive keyboard with chording: one-handed keyboard using multiple key depressions -- touch-tone keyboard layout, or for one-hand PDA-type device. Touch sensor shows images of fingertips. Any kind of multi-touch sensor may be used. Haptic effects of real keyboard?
handheld PDA/ebook reader with touchscreen: orientation button brings up dialog to rotate screen to 0,90,180,270 degrees. Resets to 0 degrees when placed in cradle. Pop-up menus for other display options.
On-screen virtual keyboard with alphabetic keys, common words (e.g. o: or, on of, over) on additional keys below, double-click and flick gesture to pop-up dictionary words or additional characters or punctuation. Cites to PenPoint and Windows for Pen Computing / PenWindows 1.0. Period character can automatically add additional two space characters.
Tablet digitizer and display, refers to sending raw analog video to the device rather than processing the video stream in the terminal: mentions Papyrus Associates and Allegro handwriting recognition. Recognition algorithms execute on separate server processor, not in local firmware
Low-power spread-spectrum modulation and decoding. Used in TouchTag encoder to send data through capacitive coupling (capacitive touchpad) see Zimmerman 1995.
Cites to REMUS recognition software: handwriting recognition, application of fractal models to determine characteristics which do not vary based on tablet resolution, writing speed, or writing size. Automatic scaling of sizes?
(in German) Introduction and review tutorial of human-machine interfaces. Broad-ranging overview includes sensors and human output for Hall-effect sensing of magnetic fields, oder/smell, gas emissions, graphical dithering, not just traditional touch and key inputs with visual output. Page 164 discusses touchscreen inputs, cites to Ward/Schulz (!).
Electromagnetic tablet (Wacom), approximate letter-size, pressure/force-sensing cordless stylus, also includes "mouse" -- mouse-styled wireless puck.
Review of data-access models using graphical representations: shows Memex system of Vannevar Bush, showing stylus input (with digitizer tablet? Telautograph?) for hand-written electronic ink, possibly handwriting recognition to insert "code symbols" as annotation and linking information on a document. Photograph of Sketchpad by Sutherland, 1963.
Undergraduate textbook on digital design and logic. Note: page 20, truth/lookup tables and boolean/logical functions
Java Swing: Layout Managers for positioning GUI elements at runtime (not an IDE), Limited support for Accessibility API com.sun.java.accessibility.util and AccessibleJComponent base class, documentation for accessibility on included CD-ROM.
Mapping between UI events and mouse buttons in Perl
Very long bibliography: mostly about gestures of music conductors, but contains some references to written gesture recognition with stylus and digitizer. Also contains references to recognition of American Sign Language gestures.
Guide for KDE window manager for Linux/Unix: Describes configuration UI for mouse, thresholds for acceleration on movement, and threshold for minimum distance in a short period of time for mouse drag-gesture movement to go into accelerated speed: compare with flick gesture? KDE 2.0 also has minimum drag distance, minimum number of pixels movement before a drag is started.
Guide for KDE Desktop Environment/window manager for Linux/Unix
VBScript -- and by reference, CScript
Refers to hotscroll continuous scrolling on OS/2 by Samuel Audet, and Autoscroll (scrolling momentum) by a four-finger gesture without decelerating. Multi-touch gestures / multi-touch input devices at Bill Buxton's lab 1980's, mentions LeeSK85.
WiVik (Windows Visual Keyboard) on-screen virtual/software keyboard for Windows 3.1, 95, NT, version 2.5. Accessibility for motor-impaired. Double-click gesture on key for shift/upper-case, selection/button activation on button-down/touch instead of button-up/release/lift. Expanding-quadrant selection (compare with marking menus): keyboard image shown in four segments, dwell on segment expands segment further divided into four quadrants, etc. Highlighting of keys as pointer passes over. Intelligent "always-on-top" when pointing to keyboard or application.
Gesture recognition (hand and body gesture) for interactive demonstration "Swamped!". Gesture of hand inside a puppet.
Remote-control touchscreen terminal for computer, shows screen of host computer with local virtual keyboard. Defines a blocking/occlusion window on screen of host computer to match local virtual keyboard image. Omnibus specification for CruisePAD pen computer. Wake-up from low-power sleep mode when touchscreen is touched: Compare with Wang Freestyle.
Optically-tracked laser pointer digitizer: both a stationary click (turn on laser while close) and marking menu by sweeping laster pointer across an action bar (side of octagon for pie menu). Five gestures like Xerox STAR menu items (cut, copy, paste, undo gestures: sweep gesture across action bar. Universal menu gesture can be used anyplace for large-size display: press-and-hold? it refers to pie menus and Kurtenbach
Resistive film digitizer used to implement various virtual devices: joystick mode, mouse mode, absolute mode, keypad mode
Compare to Kaplow?
Three-dimensional 3D force-feedback electromechanical digitizer for visualizing simple graphs and 3D surfaces for the blind and visually impaired. Adding auditory feedback and texturing aids in the perception of the surface: compare with SciAm article on multi-sensate integration.
Size/dimension threshold for tap gesture is smaller if character recognition is also enabled, to allow user to use both tap and small characters like periods. Effect on press-and-hold? two thresholds, but no press-and-hold
Bounding rectangles to segment strokes into likely words: use this information plus size to distinguish writing from gestures.
When user starts writing on text field, bring up larger rectangle to write in. If just tap in text field, select it.
Multi-touch character game using physical tokens (of pirate characters) whose position and identity on a ship model determined electronically (electromagnetic?). Compare with M.I.T. physical tokens.
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