Impact
The story behind ShapeWriter and gesture keyboard technology. (You may even have this technology on your mobile phone!) Read about a research project that led to numerous press articles, awards, and a tech start-up that was successfully acquired by Nuance Communications in 2010.
Press
This is a selection of press articles about my work. For a complete list, click here.
| Improving predictive text. The Naked Scientists (BBC, ABC Australia). Mariana-Cristina Marasoiu and Chris Smith, October 15, 2019. |
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| Here's how to type faster on your phone. The New York Times. Heather Murphy, October 4, 2019. |
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| Life after QWERTY. The Atlantic. Eleanor Smith, October 23, 2013. |
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| New computing devices are inspiring new ways to input text. MIT Technology Review. Ted Greenwald, August 21, 2013. |
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| Kalq offers Qwerty alternative for tablets. Wired UK. Duncan Geere, June 8, 2013. |
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| Users Are Better Off Designing Their Own UI Gestures. Fast Company's Co.Design. Mark Wilson, April 30, 2013. |
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| Think Gestural Interactions Suck? Design Your Own. MIT Technology Review. John Pavlus, April 26, 2013. |
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| Will the Kalq keyboard finally spell the end for qwerty?. The Guardian. Oliver Wainwright, April 25, 2013. |
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| Thumbs Up As Researchers Develop New Tablet-Friendly Keyboard, The KALQ. Fast Company. Addy Dugdale, April 25, 2013. |
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| KALQ thumb-type keyboard takes on Qwerty. BBC News Scotland. April 25, 2013. |
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| KALQ Is A New Split-Screen Keyboard Layout Designed To Speed Up Thumb Typing On Tablets & Big Phones. TechCrunch. Natasha Lomas, April 24, 2013. |
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| Software Makes Multiple Screens Less Distracting. MIT Technology Review. John Pavlus, April 2, 2013. |
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| 'Diff Displays' Computer Program Can Tell When You Aren't Looking At Your Screen. The Huffington Post. Hunter Stuart, March 18, 2013. |
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| Crowdsourcing improves predictive texting. New Scientist, pages 24-25. Duncan Graham-Rowe, February 22, 2012. |
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| Correct me if I'm wrong.... The Economist's Tecnology Quarterly. September 2, 2010. |
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| Innovation: The mobile future of the keyboard. New Scientist. Colin Barras, April 2, 2009. |
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| Top iPhone Applications. Time Magazine. August 19, 2008. |
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| Eight Top Tech Trends in '07: Let Your Fingers Do the Writing: ShapeWriter. BusinessWeek. Olga Kharif, January 29, 2007. |
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| Digitales Kalligrafie. Die Zeit (Germany). Niels Boeing, September 1, 2005. |
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| Total recall boosts PDA writing. BBC News World Edition. Alfred Hermidia, August 15, 2005. |
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| Do not ditch the stylus just yet. New Scientist. Clint Witchalls, July 30, 2005. |
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| Shark streamlines writing interfaces. The Irish Times. July 29, 2005. |
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| New Way of Writing - Text entry software spells relief for weary Blackberry thumbs. San Jose Mercury News. Mike Langberg, July 15, 2005. |
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| Trying to Make the Pen as Mighty as the Keyboard. The New York Times. Aaron Ricadela, November 11, 2004. |
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| Shorthand-Aided Rapid Keyboarding. slashdot.org. October 28, 2004. |
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| Making more of handhelds. San Jose Mercury News. Dan Gillmor, April 9, 2003. |
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