Intelligent Input App by Tian Wu, Yuting Cai, Meng Xu and Lili Zhai

Intelligent Input App by Tian Wu, Yuting Cai, Meng Xu and Lili Zhai is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Bronze A' Design Award in Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design Competition Category.

BronzeInterface· 2022

Intelligent Input App

by Tian Wu, Yuting Cai, Meng Xu and Lili Zhai

Client: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd

Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Interface Category

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The Design

About Intelligent Input App

Intelligent is an input method application for smartphones, tablets and computers. Intelligent combines several artificial intelligence technologies and works on Android, iOS, MacOS and Windows. Face recognition identifies the user and offers a matching mode, such as a mode for older people that supports handwriting and a voice assistant for rare words. Gesture recognition allows handwriting in the air, so text can be entered without touching the screen. The aim is to make communication easier for groups that face barriers in typing and expression.

The Recognition

About the Bronze A' Design Award

Intelligent Input App is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Intelligent Input App is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Intelligent Input App splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.

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Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Integrating multiple AI technologies, this intelligent input method can be applied in multiple intelligent terminals. By switching among the multiple modes targeting different populations, it meets the input demands of different target user groups, provides more intelligent assistance and services, and brings users smoother communication experience.
Dimensions & Packaging: Universally applicable to all models including Android, iOS, MacOS and Windows and all sizes.
Tags: Intelligent input, artificial intelligence (AI), user experience (UX), user interface design, expression assistance, elderly input, touchless input
Production Technology: This app is universally applicable to Android, iOS, MacOS and Windows. Consistent experience is provided for different terminals relying on multiple AI technologies.
Design Challenge: As our design targets special populations, we should consider their difficulties in input by putting ourselves in their position, including practical operation problems and psychological barriers. Therefore, we have our solution proved by more target users, thus to truly solve their input barrier and bring them more confidence and warmth.
Research: This scheme is designed according to the current situation and trend of vulnerable groups in China and authoritative data research conclusions. We have discovered the common demands of vulnerable groups in software input. In addition, we have conducted user questionnaire and interview for each user group, to further understand and demonstrate their input characteristics and provide more suitable solutions.
Inspiration: Communication and expression constitute the most common way of human exchange. Four populations (the elderly, deaf-mute, people with expression disorder and people demanding touchless input and communication during the pandemic) cannot engage in efficient communication. This design aims to solve their difficulties in input and communication depending on AI, bring them more confidence and warmth, and enable smooth communication and equality for all.
Project Duration: Initiated in November 2019, with handwriting in the air released in May 2020, the intelligent input for the elderly launched in April 2021, and other functions expected to come out in succession.
The development team is now based in Beijing.
Operation Flow: This design identifies users’ demands through face recognition, provides corresponding modes, assists in users’ efficient and accurate expression, and makes people’s communication easier. For example, it identifies the elderly through AI face recognition, offers the elderly mode, and helps the elderly input rare words in handwriting with the voice assistant; or enables handwriting in the air through gesture recognition, and guarantees users’ safety as users can input without touching the screen.
Team Members: Tian Wu, Yuting Cai, Meng Xu, Lili Zhai, Li Lei, Chenqiang Jin, Jia Yao
Image Credits: Copyright @ Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., 2020