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Gunilla Alsio

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Current place of employment:
Senseboard Technologies AB

Gunilla Alsio, President & founder of Senseboard Technologies AB and inventor of the Senseboard® Virtual Keyboard, holds an MSc in Ergonomics from Linköping University, Sweden and a BSc in Occupational Therapy.

Ms. Alsio started her business career in retailing and was responsible for establishing a rehabilitation department at a major hospital for 2 years. In 1982, she used her academic background in Occupational Therapy to embark on a 7-year career rehabilitating prisoners. Ms. Alsio worked in one of Sweden's major prisons, being responsible for 20 prisoners and Manager of 7 staff. She left the public sector in 1994 and founded an ergonomic consulting company with a focus on human-computer interaction and usability studies. Clients included Ericsson and WM Data (one of Sweden's larger IT consultant companies). She is an expert in keyboards and human-computer interaction, having specialized in the field for 8 years.

In April 2002, Ms. Alsiö was awarded the prestigious prize as Swedish "Inventor of the year" (received by only two inventors before, including Håkan Lans inventor of color graphics for the computer screen and the satellite navigation system STDMA).

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Alsio, Gunilla and Goldstein, Mikael (2000): Productivity Prediction by Extrapolation: Using Workload Memory as a Predictor of Target Performance. In Behaviour and Information Technology, 19 (2) pp. 87-96

In order to assess if productivity based on extrapolated data is a good predictor of longer texts, an experimental study was conducted. Two full-sized text input devices for touch typing and two miniaturized for tapping were used, all featuring QWERTY layout, in a repeated measurement design. Twenty subjects were exposed to both a task within the limit of working memory (nine words) and four running memory tasks (approx. 275 words). For miniaturized tapping keyboards, extrapolated data significantly underestimated both entry speed

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Goldstein, Mikael, Book, Robert, Alsio, Gunilla and Tessa, Silvia (1999): Non-Keyboard QWERTY Touch Typing: A Portable Input Interface for the Mobile User. In: Altom, Mark W. and Williams, Marian G. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 99 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference May 15-20, 1999, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. pp. 32-39. Available online

Using traditional mobile input devices results in decreased effectiveness and efficiency. To improve usability issues a portable Non-Keyboard QWERTY touch-typing paradigm that supports the mobile touch-typing user is presented and investigated. It requires negligible training time. Pressure sensors strapped to the fingertips of gloves detect which finger is depressed. A language model based on lexical and syntactic knowledge transforms the depressed finger stroke sequence into real words and sentences. Different mobile input QWERTY paradigms (miniaturised, floating and Non-Keyboard) have been compared with full-size QWERTY. Among the mobile input paradigms, the Non-Keyboard fared significantly better, both regarding character error rate and subjective ratings.

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Mikael Goldstein, Gunilla Alsio, Jost Werdenhoff (2002): The Media Equation Does Not Always Apply: People are not Polite Towards Small Computers. In Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (2002) 6:87-96

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28 Apr 2003: Added the author to the bibliography

Publication statistics

Publication period:1999-2000
Publication count:2
Number of co-authors:3



Productive colleagues

Gunilla Alsio's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

Mikael Goldstein:19
Silvia Tessa:1
Robert Book:1


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Number of publications with 3 favourite co-authors:

Mikael Goldstein:2
Silvia Tessa:1
Robert Book:1

 

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