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”Who needs a stylus?” asked the late Steve Jobs during his introduction of the iPhone. Interestingly, just at this time, Apple had made a patent application in handwriting and input recognition via pen, and Google and Nokia followed. So, “who needs a stylus then?” According to our experience in projects with mobile devices in the “real-world” we noticed that handwriting is still an issue, e.g. in the medical domain. Medical professionals are very accustomed to use a pen, whereas touch devices are rather used by non-medical professionals and definitely preferred by elderly people. During our projects on mobile devices, we noticed that both handwriting and touch has certain advantages and disadvantages, but that both are of equal importance. So to concretely answer “Who needs a stylus?” we can answer: Medical professionals for example. And this is definitely a large group of users.
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Holzinger, A., Searle, G., Peischl, B., Debevc, M. (2012). An Answer to “Who Needs a Stylus?” on Handwriting Recognition on Mobile Devices. In: Obaidat, M.S., Sevillano, J.L., Filipe, J. (eds) E-Business and Telecommunications. ICETE 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 314. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35755-8_12
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