Research & Press
Dasher is an information-efficient text-entry interface, driven by natural continuous pointing gestures. Dasher is a competitive text-entry system wherever a full-size keyboard cannot be used.
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[Mouse-driven Dasher] Dasher - a Data Entry Interface Using Continuous Gestures and Language Models.
by David J Ward, Alan F Blackwell and David J C MacKay
In proceedings UIST 2000.Figures showing the main results in the above paper are here.
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[Eyetracker-driven Dasher]
Fast Hands-free Writing by Gaze Direction,
by David J. Ward and David J.C. MacKay. Submitted to Nature April 2002. Published August 22 2002.
eyeshortpaper.ps.gz | eyeshortpaper.pdf | abstract | (or via arxiv.org.) -
eyeflyer.ps.gz. eyeflyer.pdf. abstract.
` Hands-free Text Entry using Dasher with an Eyetracker ‘.
A one-page flyer by David J. Ward and David J.C. MacKay. -
Article from ACNR magazine (one page, pdf)
Dasher - an efficient keyboard alternative by David MacKay.
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Tiny A5 Flyer about Dasher (one page, pdf)
Dasher - Information-efficient text entry
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Article for Glot International magazine (4 pages, pdf)
Dasher - an efficient keyboard alternative by David MacKay.
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Article for Interfaces magazine (5 pages, pdf)
Dasher - an efficient keyboard alternative by David MacKay.
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Bliss-Dasher - Efficient semantic writing with any muscle (pdf file) - by David MacKay, Seb Wills, and Annalu Waller.
[See also The Bliss-Dasher project webpage.]
Speech-Dasher prototype
Keith Vertanen has made nice videos of his prototype speech-recognition/Dasher hybrid. www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/kv227/speechdasher/
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Dasher is an information-efficient text-entry interface, driven by natural continuous pointing gestures. Dasher is a competitive text-entry system wherever a full-size keyboard cannot be used.
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