Publications and Presentations

Publications

Dasher Manual and Special Needs Guide Manual (15 pages) (Draft) (postscript) (pdf) | Spanish Manual (contributed by Niriana Blasco)

Dasher in Korean - a six-page paper by David MacKay: | pdf | postscript |

Most of the original research work on Dasher was done by David Ward.

Between 1999 and 2002, we made three assessments of Dasher, comparing it with alternative text entry systems on three platforms.

• One-handed text-entry using mouse alone
• Text-entry on a pocket PC with a stylus
• Text-entry with no hands, using Dasher with an Eyetracker (Further information about hardware)

• [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.
  
  
• [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.

• Tiny A5 Flyer about Dasher (one page, pdf)

  Dasher - Information-efficient text entry

• Article for Glot International magazine (4 pages, pdf)

  Dasher - an efficient keyboard alternative by David MacKay.

• Article for Interfaces magazine (5 pages, pdf)

  Dasher - an efficient keyboard alternative by David MacKay.

• 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.]

Presentations

Dasher - information-efficient text entry (19th April 2007)

Google tech talk (54 minute video) by David MacKay at Google Inc, Mountain View

September 2005

Dasher - writing fast and free with any muscle - Closing The Gap 2005 (html) (includes slides used for presentation at Princeton University)

Hands-free writing - banquet presentation for UAI 2005 (html)

A neuron that communicates 10 words per minute (html) - a presentation about Dasher's new button modes.

Dasher for Korean (html) - shows how to write Korean using a simple roughly-80-character alphabet.

Dasher - Write efficiently with any muscle! (html) - Dasher presentation for BECTA Seminar Oct 2004.

Information-Efficient Writing (html) - Dasher presentation for Machine Learning Workshop 2004. Includes preliminary results on breath mouse and enhanced eyetracking mode.

Dasher for Eyetracking (html) - presentation for Cogain meeting.

Alternative Controls for Dasher (html) - presentation about one-dimensional mode, eyetracking mode, and Button modes.

Probability, Information, and Hands-free writing (html) - Dasher presentation for Maximum Entropy conference 2004.

Power point file: Dasher Presentation for John Hopfield's birthday Symposium, June 2003.

Power point file: Presentation about Dasher for AbilityNet, December 2002.

See also the movies on the Demonstration page.

Speech-Dasher prototype