AKSHAR: A mechanism for inputting Indic scripts on digital devices
Pranav B. Mistry, Niranjan Nayak · 2007
Text input in Indian lang uages on digital devices presents unique challenges to the field of human- computer interaction. Part of the complexity arises due to the structure of the Indic scripts, which are derived from the ancient Brahmi script. Mechanisms to input text in Indian languages on mobile phone have been around for a while but none of these mechanisms are usable enough to emerge as the de-facto standard. These mechanisms fail to give clear justice to the structure, inherent to the Brahmi script that is radically different than the Roman and the Latin scripts. In this paper, we present a new text input mechanism that is based on the phonetic structure of the Indic scripts. The main goal of the research was to devise a new text input method that is targeted to the novice users and that can be learnt quickly, retained and fair speed can be achieved. Preliminary ev aluation tests indicate that the new proposed method for inputting text in Indian languages is very intuitive and easy to use.