A Japanese Input Method for Mobile Terminals Using Surface EMG Signals

The common use of mobile terminals is for text input. However, mobile terminals cannot be equipped with sufficient amount of keys because of the physical restrictions. To solve this problem we developed an input method using surface electromyogram (sEMG), treating arm muscle movements as input signals. This method involves no physical keys and can be used to input Japanese texts. In our experiments, the system was capable of inputting Japanese characters with a finger motion recognition rate of approximately 80%.

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