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TiltText: Using Tilt for Text Input • Estimated 500,000,000,000 text messages
in 2003 worldwide
to Mobile Phones
• More popular outside North America
Ambiguity Solutions
• Pressing “2” : {2,a,b,c,A,B,C} • MultiTap
• Language -based disambiguation
• T9
• Letterwise
• Wordwise
• Alternate Layouts:
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5 6
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T9: Problems What’s best?
• Ambiguity persists • Low KSPC
• Inconsistent
• Eyes-free
• Eyes-free operation impossible
• Non-language specific
• Only English -Like text
• No numerals
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S
9 10
11 12
2
Tilt Detection: Relative Our Prototype
• Most recent tilting gesture • Uses Absolute tilt
• floating origin • Implemented on Motorola i95 in Java
• Tilts from board via serial port
• Maintains advantages of Absolute tilt
• No “creeping posture”
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in 2 sessions 12
10
WPM
8
• Same phrases for both techniques TiltText
6
MultiTap
• Technique order between participant 4
0
• Participants told to correct mistakes 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Block
15 16
12 12
0.1184
10 y = 8.0297x 10
WPM
WPM
2
R = 0.8963 8
8 TiltText
TiltText
6 6 MultiTap
MultiTap
4 4
2 2
0 0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25
Block Block
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3
Results: Error Rate Error Rate: By Letter
• TiltText error rate higher than MultiTap • Error rates much higher for some letters
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Error Rate Percentage
2
5
0 0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
19 20
35
30
• TiltText faster despite errors
25
20
15
10
0
Left Forward Right Back
21 22
23 24
4
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