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A text entry technique for wrist-worn watches with tiny touchscreens

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We consider a text entry technique for wrist-worn watches with inch-scale touchscreens. Most of the watches which are commercially available, for example, Galaxy Gear, Omate, etc., have around 1.5-inch touchscreens that is too small for the shrinked Qwerty keyboard. Moreover, the virtual button-based techniques determine input-letters by distinguishing touched locations on touchscreens which continuously demands a user to carefully touch certain locations. Thus, they are not suitable to tiny-touchscreen devices in mobile environment. Instead, the proposed text entry technique allows a user to touch almost anywhere on the touchscreen for text entry by determining input-letters based on drag direction regardless of touched location. We implemented the proposed method on a commercial watch with 1.54-inch touchscreen for validating its feasibility.

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    UIST '14 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
    October 2014
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    DOI:10.1145/2658779
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    1. smart watch
    2. text entry
    3. touchscreen
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    • (2021)One Line Soft Keyboard with T9-keys Layout Proposal on Smartwatch Touch Screen DeviceIOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering10.1088/1757-899X/1125/1/0120361125:1(012036)Online publication date: 1-May-2021
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