{"id":99,"date":"2005-08-16T18:58:23","date_gmt":"2005-08-16T22:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maindot.com\/technologynews\/archives\/recognising-the-patterns-of-words-new-pda-input-method\/"},"modified":"2005-08-16T18:58:23","modified_gmt":"2005-08-16T22:58:23","slug":"recognising-the-patterns-of-words-new-pda-input-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.maindot.com\/technologynews\/archives\/recognising-the-patterns-of-words-new-pda-input-method\/","title":{"rendered":"Recognising the Patterns of Words &#8211; New PDA input method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News Reports: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/4145184.stm\">Total recall boosts PDA writing<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The idea of remembering word patterns and connecting the dots might not sound like an easy way to write an e-mail. <\/p>\n<p>But IBM researchers are betting that tracing letters on a touch screen will become the way to write on a handheld device like a PDA or mobile phone. <\/p>\n<p>They have developed software that works by recognising the patterns of words.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nIn order to tap into this unrealised potential, the IBM team came up with software that works by using geometrical patterns to represent words. <\/p>\n<p>Instead of tapping out letters or writing a word on screen, you trace each letter in a single, fluid stroke. The keyboard on screen shows the shape of the word.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting new method, we will se if this new input method for PDAs is practical too&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News Reports: Total recall boosts PDA writing The idea of remembering word patterns and connecting the dots might not sound like an easy way to write an e-mail. But IBM researchers are betting that tracing letters on a touch screen will become the way to write on a handheld device like a PDA or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maindot.com\/technologynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maindot.com\/technologynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maindot.com\/technologynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maindot.com\/technologynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maindot.com\/technologynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.maindot.com\/technologynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maindot.com\/technologynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maindot.com\/technologynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maindot.com\/technologynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}