Text entry performance of state of the art unconstrained handwriting recognition

Per Ola Kristensson, Leif C. Denby
2009 Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI 09  
We report on a longitudinal study of unconstrained handwriting recognition performance. After 250 minutes of practice, participants had a mean text entry rate of 24.1 wpm. For the first four hours of usage, entry and error rates of handwriting recognition are about the same as for a baseline QWERTY software keyboard. Our results reveal that unconstrained handwriting is faster than what was previously assumed in the text entry literature. We recruited 12 volunteers from the university campus. We
more » ... intentionally wanted a rather broad sample and recruited participants from many different departments with many CHI 2009 ~ Non-traditional Interaction Techniques
doi:10.1145/1518701.1518788 dblp:conf/chi/KristenssonD09 fatcat:trhexgn5unbyvprxpozpjg3r5m