A Video for Handwriting recognition for maths!!!

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cmml100

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Hi,

This will be the last time I bother you with this for a little while. I have produced a rather amateur video (4min) of what I think handwriting recognition for maths should look like. For the time being, I have named it MathPen.

http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cmml100/VIDEO0012.mp4

What I want to know is:
1. how useful do you think MathPen would be for your personal work?
2. how useful do you think MathPen would be for others?
3. is there any useful feature that should be included in MathPen?

I wonder if anyone here can have a look at this video and tell me what you think of it in a survey?
Link to survey: https://www.isurvey.soton.ac.uk/5682

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Thanks a lot,
Mandy.

P.S> Thanks for telling me about BBCode. Very interesting stuff.
 
The video plays for roughly 30 seconds and then stalls, for me. I tried reloading the page three times.

I may come back and try again later. :cool:
 
Uh oh, now it's worse than last time. :( Broken sound right away and no visible video frame (i.e., black page).
 
This afternoon, the sound is playing superbly, but the page is still black.

However, refreshing the page worked for me this time.

I completed your survey. Be advised that I typed a sentence (versus my name) into the optional field for name inclusion because the survey would not allow me to continue with leaving that field blank. (I'm sure that you would not want that sentence automatically merged into your dissertation; hence, the warning.)

:cool:
 
tkhunny said:
Does it already exist?

http://www.dessci.com/en/products/m...email&utm_term=MIP&utm_campaign=mtwe68mip1207

You'll have to distinguish yourself favorably, somehow. Price?
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Price? Hopefully free of charge! Hm... that depends on whether I get the funding and partnership to develop it or not. Windows 7 has a handwriting recognition too, though it is somewhat rubbish, it is free in a sense. There are also a lot of free apps out there too.

What I see is this: if by providing the app for free, we can in turn collect data regarding the use of mathematics, the common mistakes and student teacher dynamics, it forms self-funded research platforms. That is one way to argue that it would save money for the research councils. --- kind of a strange business model, but it can work!

So, yes. depending on how things work out, it may well be free of charge!

And, no. Math Type relies on Win7. It is not cross platform and you have to know exactly what you are going to write before you start. You do have to write in a sensible order for the expressions to be recognised. I want students to be able to just focus on the maths though.
 
mmm4444bot said:
Accuracy is more important, to me.

Handwriting-recognition software that I've already tried is crap.
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Totally agree. At the moment, even if you write neatly but slanted, it will not recognise the expressions correctly. or I should say, I have yet to see and try one. Strangely though, engineers working on handwriting recognition for Chinese are in totally different field for mathematics. You see? Linguists and Mathematicians do not mix very well somehow. But I wondered about mixing the two to produce something better.

Being bilingual and a maths teacher with an engineering background, I think I might be able to persuade enough experts from different fields to put their heads together.

Mind you, it all depends on persuading two professors that it is worth trying in the first place. Without their approval, I'd go bankrupt before I even speak to anyone. Hence the surveys and stuff. :D
 
mmm4444bot said:
This afternoon, the sound is playing superbly, but the page is still black.

However, refreshing the page worked for me this time.

I completed your survey. Be advised that I typed a sentence (versus my name) into the optional field for name inclusion because the survey would not allow me to continue with leaving that field blank. (I'm sure that you would not want that sentence automatically merged into your dissertation; hence, the warning.)

:cool:
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thanks. it is no problem at all. just another thing that shows how stupid and mindless computers really are!
 
just a polite note to say thank you to everyone who has participated in the survey. I have now been given the go ahead to look into developing something that would make it easier to communicate mathematics online. thank you all. :p
 
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