No-touch typing.
Reports on Dasher, a text-input program that works by predicting which letter is most likely to come next in a piece of text. Details of how Dasher works and how typing can be controlled by eye; Mention of the program's originators, David MacKay and David Ward of Cambridge University, and the mathe...
| Published in: | Economist Vol. 364; no. 8287; pp. 59 - 61 |
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| Format: | Article |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
8/24/2002
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| Summary: | Reports on Dasher, a text-input program that works by predicting which letter is most likely to come next in a piece of text. Details of how Dasher works and how typing can be controlled by eye; Mention of the program's originators, David MacKay and David Ward of Cambridge University, and the mathematical model on which it is based; Outlook for Dasher to be used by paraplegics and to compete with speech-recognition packages used by those with repetitive-strain injuries; Idea that the program learns as it goes. |
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