New computing devices are inspiring new ways to input text
From: MIT Technology Review - Sep/Oct 2013
35 Innovators under 35 - 2013

Per Ola Kristensson is making it easy, fast, and intuitive to input text on
mobile devices. He helped invent the popular gestural text-entry method known
as ShapeWriter.

His work on tools for disabled people illustrates his approach to problem
solving.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.technologyreview.com/lists/innovators-under-35/2013/visionary/per-ola-kristensson/

Links:
Per Ola Kristensson
http://pokristensson.com/

ShapeWriter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShapeWriter

Crowdsourcing improves predictive texting
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328536.600-crowdsourcing-improves-predictive-texting.html

The Imagination of Crowds: Conversational AAC Language Modeling using
  Crowdsourcing and Large Data Sources 
http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/D/D11/D11-1065.pdf