A uni-stroke text input strategy for wheel input controls is proposed, such as the wheel controls found on the 5th generation ipod multimedia devices. The popularity of the ipod indicates that the wheel input paradigm is intuitive and usable. The proposed uni-strokes are based on circular motions that follow the contour of the wheel. Spatial mnemonics based on the shape of the alphabetic charac...

A number of recent studies consistently show an area, known as the visual word form area (VWFA), in the left fusiform gyrus that is selectively responsive for visual words in alphabetic scripts as well as in logographic scripts, such as Chinese characters. However, given the large difference between Chinese characters and alphabetic scripts in terms of their orthographic rules, it is not clear ...

Inputting written Chinese, unlike written English, is a non-trivial operation using a standard keyboard. To accommodate this operation, numerous existing phonetic systems using the Roman alphabet were adopted as a means of input while still making use of a Western keyboard. With the growing prevalence of computing devices capable of pen-based input, naturally sketching written Chinese using a p...

We present a logical approach to graph theoretical learning that is based on using alphabetic substitutions for modelling graph morphisms. A classiied graph is represented by a deenite clause that possesses variables of the sort node for representing nodes and atoms for representing the edges. In contrast to the standard logical semantics, different node variables are assumed to denote diierent...

Chunking is segmenting a text into chunks, sub-sentential segments, that Abney approximately defined as stress groups. Chunking usually uses monolingual resources, most often exhaustive, sometimes partial : function words and punctuations, which often mark beginnings and ends of chunks. But, to extend this method to other languages, monolingual resources have to be multiplied. We present a new ...

A growing body of neuroimaging evidence has shown that Chinese character processing recruits differential activation from alphabetic languages due to its unique linguistic features. As more investigations on Chinese character processing have recently become available, we applied a meta-analytic approach to summarize previous findings and examined the neural networks for orthographic, phonologic...

Mobile computing can be equipped with wireless devices to allow users retrieving information from anywhere at anytime. Recently, wireless data broadcast becomes a popular data dissemination method, especially for broadcasting public information to a large number of mobile subscribers at the same time. Access Latency and Tuning Time are two main criteria to evaluate the performance of a data bro...

Word recognition develops with such remarkable speed that, by the end of eighth grade, we expect children learning to read English to know and recognize over 80,000 words (Adams, 1990). At a basic level, beginning readers must establish a system of mappings or correspondences between the letters or graphemes of written words and the phonemes of spoken words (Ehri, 1992), and it is generally tho...

Bilingual reading can require more than knowing two languages. Learners must acquire also the writing conventions of their second language, which can differ in its deep mapping principles (writing system) and its visual configurations (script). We review ERP (event-related potential) and fMRI studies of both Chinese–English bilingualism and Chinese second language learning that bear on the syst...

Visual word recognition involves mappings among orthographic, phonological, and semantic codes. In alphabetic languages, it is hard to disentangle the effects of these codes, because orthographically well-formed words are typically pronounceable, confounding orthographic and phonological processes, and orthographic cues to meaning are rare, and where they occur are morphological, confounding or...