PianoText: Redesigning the piano keyboard for text entry

Anna Feit; Antti Oulasvirta

doi:10.1145/2598784.2602800

PianoText: Redesigning the piano keyboard for text entry

Anna Feit, Antti Oulasvirta

User Interfaces

Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › Scientific › peer-review

9 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Inspired by the high keying rates of skilled pianists we study the design of piano keyboards for rapid text entry. We present PianoText, a computationally designed mapping that assigns letter sequences of English to frequent note transitions in music. The design is based on four concepts: 1) redundancy, 2) chords, 3) sound and 4) skill transfer. It allows fast text entry of over 80 wpm on any MIDI enabled keyboard. At the demonstration, visitors can explore the benefits of these concepts by typing on PianoText-Mini, a device that allows for piano-based typing at a portable form factor.

Original language	English
Pages	129-132
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2598784.2602800
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems - Vancouver, Canada Duration: 21 Jun 2014 → 25 Jun 2014

Conference

Conference	ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Abbreviated title	DIS
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Vancouver
Period	21/06/2014 → 25/06/2014

Keywords

Text entry
The piano keyboard

Access to Document

10.1145/2598784.2602800

Cite this

@conference{27bd5fa8efc74587bf7c39b1cbdab979,

title = "PianoText: Redesigning the piano keyboard for text entry",

abstract = "Inspired by the high keying rates of skilled pianists we study the design of piano keyboards for rapid text entry. We present PianoText, a computationally designed mapping that assigns letter sequences of English to frequent note transitions in music. The design is based on four concepts: 1) redundancy, 2) chords, 3) sound and 4) skill transfer. It allows fast text entry of over 80 wpm on any MIDI enabled keyboard. At the demonstration, visitors can explore the benefits of these concepts by typing on PianoText-Mini, a device that allows for piano-based typing at a portable form factor.",

keywords = "Text entry, The piano keyboard",

author = "Anna Feit and Antti Oulasvirta",

year = "2014",

doi = "10.1145/2598784.2602800",

language = "English",

pages = "129--132",

note = "ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS ; Conference date: 21-06-2014 Through 25-06-2014",

}

TY - CONF

T1 - PianoText

T2 - ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

AU - Feit, Anna

AU - Oulasvirta, Antti

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - Inspired by the high keying rates of skilled pianists we study the design of piano keyboards for rapid text entry. We present PianoText, a computationally designed mapping that assigns letter sequences of English to frequent note transitions in music. The design is based on four concepts: 1) redundancy, 2) chords, 3) sound and 4) skill transfer. It allows fast text entry of over 80 wpm on any MIDI enabled keyboard. At the demonstration, visitors can explore the benefits of these concepts by typing on PianoText-Mini, a device that allows for piano-based typing at a portable form factor.

AB - Inspired by the high keying rates of skilled pianists we study the design of piano keyboards for rapid text entry. We present PianoText, a computationally designed mapping that assigns letter sequences of English to frequent note transitions in music. The design is based on four concepts: 1) redundancy, 2) chords, 3) sound and 4) skill transfer. It allows fast text entry of over 80 wpm on any MIDI enabled keyboard. At the demonstration, visitors can explore the benefits of these concepts by typing on PianoText-Mini, a device that allows for piano-based typing at a portable form factor.

KW - Text entry

KW - The piano keyboard

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84904488779&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1145/2598784.2602800

DO - 10.1145/2598784.2602800

M3 - Poster

SP - 129

EP - 132

Y2 - 21 June 2014 through 25 June 2014

ER -

PianoText: Redesigning the piano keyboard for text entry

Abstract

Conference

Keywords

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this