Portfolio

OfftheAve – Housing Database for Seattle’s U. District
	A housing database for the University District in Seattle. It is my first entrepreneurial project. My partner and I wrote every line of PHP codes from scratch. http://josephlai.com/projects/offtheave/
Super Craig – Keyboard Oriented UI for the Web
	A concept UI for the Web that explores alternative interaction methods. Users can navigate the site using just the direction keys. http://josephlai.com/projects/SuperCraig/

Donuts – Pen-Based Chinese Input Interface

Handwriting recognition is often considered an ideal solution for pen-based Chinese input. However, handwriting Chinese suffers from the performance bottleneck due to the complex structure of Chinese characters.

We designed Donuts, a technique that allows an user to enter Chinese characters by navigating through a hierarchical marking menu of phonetic symbols. In particular, to place 12 vowels into a marking menu while keeping the performance, we designed a pressure-sensitive marking menu to organize the 12 vowels into two pressure-sensitive layers.

Informal feedback and a theoretical prediction of performance indicated that Donuts is a promising technique for Chinese input.

Publications:
Donuts: A Chinese Input Technique Using Pressure-Sensitive Marking Menus. Joseph Ting-Chun Lai, Yang Li, Richard Anderson.

Appeared in UIST 2005. Paper: Video: