Digit Wireless has announced a new kind of text entry method for phones with a touchscreen or a touch keyboard. The new method provides faster and more reliable typing than previous solutions. The method, called TRACE, continuously traces finger motion and searches for the word we want to enter with the help of special dictionaries. In order to type a word we just have to press the first letter and then pull our finger over all other letters, lifting our finger only after we touch the last character. The word appears on-screen only after this and spaces are automatically added after each typed word. If the entered word is not unambiguous the algorithm offers all possible variants, but it can offer words even during typing if they become evident, based on the already typed part. The solution can be applied to any language with proper dictionaries and of course besides cell phones it can be used on touch-screen terminal and other devices as well.
Translated by Szaszati
