Nokia Diexie
Nokia Research Center, Beijing has just released Nokia Diexie (the official name ????? means “overlapping handwriting”), a beta application for Chinese speakers around the world to write sentences in Chinese on their touchscreen phones naturally – without having to pause between characters.
What makes Nokia Diexie unique is that it was designed specifically for smaller touchscreen phones where writing out a full sentence just won’t fit on the limited real estate. Nokia Diexie allows users to simply write a full sentence one character over another in a stacking style. As you begin writing the next character over the previous character, the previous character begins to fade away, creating an overlapped visual, allowing you to concentrate on finishing the next character.
Nokia Research Center has shown that this input method not only increases the overall user experience for Chinese character text input, but also increases the accuracy of the recognition to identify different handwriting styles. Instead of having to recognize just one character, the character recognition engine sees all the characters in one complete sentence and determines if the characters create a grammatically correct sentence. The result is increased accuracy and a much more intuitive handwriting input method.
Nokia Diexie is an evolutionary iteration of the handwriting recognition technologies that were previously showcased in the Ovi Store with Nokia Handwriting Calculator and Nokia Continuous Handwriting Input.
Nokia Research Center is currently evaluating how to take Nokia Diexie forward and would love to hear your thoughts. Although it’s optimized for Chinese language input, they’ve included support for English too so that more people can try it out. Please download the application and offer your comments on Nokia Diexie.
