PianoText: transferring musical expertise to text entry
Full Title: PianoText: transferring musical expertise to text entry Authors: Anna Maria Feit, Antti Oulasvirta Abstract: We present PianoText, a text entry method based on a piano keyboard with an optimized mapping between notes and chords of music to letters of the English language. PianoText exemplifies the idea of transferring musical expertise to a text entry task by computationally searching for mappings between frequent motor patterns while considering their n-gram frequency distributions and respecting constraints affecting the playability of music. In the Interactivity session, audience members with piano skills can transcribe text with PianoText, and a trained pianist will show that it allows him to generate text at speeds close to that of professional QWERTY-typists. URL: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2479606 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2468356.2479606
Full Title: PianoText: transferring musical expertise to text entry Authors: Anna Maria Feit, Antti Oulasvirta Abstract: We present PianoText, a text entry method based on a piano keyboard with an optimized mapping between notes and chords of music to letters of the English language. PianoText exemplifies the idea of transferring musical expertise to a text entry task by computationally searching for mappings between frequent motor patterns while considering their n-gram frequency distributions and respecting constraints affecting the playability of music. In the Interactivity session, audience members with piano skills can transcribe text with PianoText, and a trained pianist will show that it allows him to generate text at speeds close to that of professional QWERTY-typists. URL: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2479606 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2468356.2479606