‘mobile text’

Mobile Visual Text Translator

An Android mobile visual text translator is proposed and developed. The translator is able to extract text from images and perform in situ translation. Our app can automatically recognize texts in simple plain images such as book, sign, and map and overlays the translated text on top of the original one, while preserving information such as location, color, font size, etc. This is often needed ...

Speech-Assisted Mobile Text Entry

Usefulness of Mobile Information Provision Systems Using Graphic Text -Visibility of Graphic Text on Mobile Phones

Textual information can be sent as graphic images without being coded in the broadband digital network. By using graphic text, characters or symbols with unsupported fonts can be displayed. Graphical e-mail systems in mobile phones for sending digital photographs are useful in sending graphic text. We researched the visibility of graphic text on the liquid crystal displays in mobile phones comp...

Mobile Note Taking: Investigating the Efficacy of Mobile Text Entry

When designing interaction techniques for mobile devices we must ensure users are able to safely navigate through their physical environment while interacting with their mobile device. Non-speech audio has proven effective at improving interaction on mobile devices by allowing users to maintain visual focus on environmental navigation while presenting information to them via their audio channel...

Keyboards Redux: Fast Mobile Text Entry

WIRELESS MESSAGING In 2003, wireless messaging accounted for US$16 billion in revenue for mobile phone service providers. Some forecasters predict that between 1 and 2 trillion messages will be sent this year, and analysts say that mobile email will be the next big market for the European industry. Other markets, such as mobile gaming and location-based services, will also use text entry. Howev...