Welcome to AK's Research Homepage My research Tools Publications Blogs and stuff Conferences Contact detail My research I am a second year PhD student at University of Central Lancashire, Preston, England. My PhD is titled "The Effects of Language Skills and Visual Processing Skills on Text Input Tasks with Children", and I am very fortunate to have my PhD supervised by Dr Janet Read at UCLan and Prof. Alan Dix at Lancaster University. I am interested in seeing if there are any differences between dyslexic and non-dyslexic people in carrying out text input tasks, and how computers can help dyslexics in processing information. I have a general interest in mental "disabilities" such as Dyslexia, ADHD, Asperger's Syndrome (as I have all these), Autism, etc, as well as physical disabilities such as visual, audio and physical impairements. I completed my BSc in Computer Science at Queen Mary, University of London in 2003, and my MSc in Human Computer Interaction at UCLan in 2005. When I'm not shifting through logs of typing errors made by children, I am in class rooms teaching HCI module at UCLan, or training people on personal organisation, task management and time management. I am currently undertaking a training course in teaching, and a diploma in Child Psychology. I am a SETPOINT ambassador for Lancashire in promoting science and engineering in further education to local schools. On the rare occassions that I find some spare time, I am working backstage on gigs and club nights. Tools CPSet (Children's Phrase Set) is a phrase set which contains 500 phrases designs to be used with children in text input method evaluations. you can download the text file here PHANTIM (PHrase ANalyser for Text Input Methods) is a php based program which anaylises phrase sets for basic phrase set data such as how many words, data on the number of trigger words that are contained in the set and produces a frequency table for unique words and for trigger words. The table can also be ordered according to several measures. To test a phrase set, simply copy and paste it to here (each phrase should be on a new line). Publications Kano, A. & Read, J. C. (2009) Text Input Error Categorisation: Solving Character Level Insertion Ambiguities Using Zero Time Analysis. Submitted for BCS HCI 2009, Cambridge, UK, ACM Press. Kano, A. (2008) MECE Method For Categorising Typing Errors. BCS HCI 2008, Liverpool, UK. ACM Press. [PDF] Kano, A., Read, J. C., Dix, A., I. Scott MacKenzie (2007) ExpECT: An Expanded Error Categorisation Method for Text Input, Submitted for BCS HCI 2007, Lancaster, UK. [PDF] [PPT] My favourite Lesson - Guardian Article, 2nd January 2007. [PDF] Kano, A., Read, J. C, and A, Dix (2006) ChildrenÕs Phrase Set for Text Input Method Evaluations. Proceedings of the Fourth Nordic Conference on Human Computer Interaction Ð NordiChi 2006, ACM Press. [PDF] [Poster] Kano, A. (2005), Evaluating Phrase Sets for Use with Text Entry Method Evaluation with Dyslexic Participants, Workshop on Improving and Assessing Pen-Based Input Techniques at British HCI 2005, Edinburgh, England. [PDF] Kano, A. and Read, J.C. (2005), Doing Girly Stuff in Semi structured Design Activities - and the Point is?, Workshop on Child Computer Interaction: Methodological Research at Interact 2005, Rome, Italy. [PDF] Blogs and stuff AK's Blog My Guardian Article on 2nd January 2007 Conferences British HCI 2008, Liverpool, England CARS 2007 workshop, Preston, England. British HCI 2007, Lancaster, England. IDC 2007, Aalborg, Denmark. Interface and Society 2006, Oslo, Norway. NordiCHI 2006, Oslo, Norway Fun and Games Conference, Preston, England. Interact 2005, Rome, Italy British HCI 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland Contact detail Akiyo Kano Department of Computing University of Central Lancashire Preston Lancashire PR1 2HE Tel: +44-1772-89-5300 akano 'at' uclan 'dot' co 'dot' uk