@inproceedings{de8bfaa06d074614b9b723f522433f7f,
title = "PhonePoint pen: Using mobile phones to write in air",
abstract = "The ability to note down small pieces of information, quickly and ubiquitously, can be useful. This paper proposes a system called PhonePoint Pen that uses the in-built accelerometer in mobile phones to recognize human writing. By holding the phone like a pen, an user should be able to write short messages or even draw simple diagrams in air. The acceleration due to hand gestures can be converted into an image, and sent to the user's Internet email address for future reference. We motivate the utility of such a system through simple use-cases and applications, and present the design and implementation challenges towards a functional prototype. Our early results show that the PhonePoint Pen is feasible if the user is restricted to a few simple constraints.",
keywords = "Accelerometers, Electronic pen, Gestures, Handwriting, Input device, Mobile computing applications, Mobile phones, Sketching, Strokes, Writing in air",
author = "Sandip Agrawal and Ionut Constandache and Shravan Gaonkar and Choudhury, {Romit Roy}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2009 ACM.; 1st ACM Workshop on Networking, Systems, and Applications for Mobile Handhelds, MobiHeld 2009 ; Conference date: 17-08-2009",
year = "2009",
month = aug,
day = "17",
doi = "10.1145/1592606.1592608",
language = "English (US)",
series = "SIGCOMM 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 SIGCOMM Conference and Co-Located Workshops, MobiHeld 2009",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "1--6",
booktitle = "SIGCOMM 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 SIGCOMM Conference and Co-Located Workshops, MobiHeld 2009",
address = "United States",
}