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PianoText: Transferring Musical Expertise to Text Entry

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Feit,  Anna
Computer Graphics, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society;

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Oulasvirta,  Antti
Computer Graphics, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society;

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Feit, A., & Oulasvirta, A. (2013). PianoText: Transferring Musical Expertise to Text Entry. In P. Baudisch, M. Beaudouin-Lafon, & W. E. Mackay (Eds.), CHI 2013 Extended Abstracts (pp. 3043-3046). New York, NY: ACM. doi:10.1145/2468356.2479606.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0015-19CC-9
Abstract
We present PianoText, a text entry method based on a piano keyboard with an optimized mapping between notes and chords of music to letters of the English language. PianoText exemplies the idea of transferring musical expertise to a text entry task by computationally searching for mappings between frequent motor patterns while considering their n-gram frequency distributions and respecting constraints aecting the playability of music. In the Interactivity session, audience members with piano skills can transcribe text with PianoText, and a trained pianist will show that it allows him to generate text at speeds close to that of professional QWERTY-typists.