The Reactive Keyboard

This book describes the Reactive Keyboard, a device to assist disabled users interaction with computers by predicting the users next response. This greatly speeds dialogue and aids communication.

List of contents

List of figures and tables; Acknowledgments; Part I. Communication Disability and Predictive Text Generation: 1. Communication and communication aids; 2. Predictive text generation systems; 3. The Predict system and its evaluation; Part II. The Reactive Keyboard: 4. The user interface; 5. The prediction mechanism; 6. Implementation; 7. Concluding remarks; Appendix A. Documentation for RK-UNIX; Appendix B. Documentation for RK-PC; Appendix C. Code for the Reactive Keyboard; Appendix D. List of sources; References; Index.

Summary

This 1992 book discusses a functional architecture for communication aids and the idea of automatically supplying the intrinsic redundancy contained in natural communication. The distinctions between adaptive and non-adaptive models of communication are shown and details are given of working predictive text generation systems, specifically the Reactive Keyboard.

Product details

• Authors: John J. Darragh, Ian H. Witten
• Assisted by: J. Long (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.08.2012
• EAN: 9780521403757
• ISBN: 978-0-521-40375-7
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 183 mm x 260 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 581 g
• Series: Cambridge Series on Human-Comp
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Application software