Bott, Jared N.Gabriele, DanielJr., Joseph J. LaViolaTracy Hammond and Andy Nealen2013-10-312013-10-312011978-1-4503-0906-61812-3503https://doi.org/10.2312/SBM/SBM11/125-132Mathematical handwriting recognition is an important method of mathematics input for computers. While strides in recognition have been made in recent years, recognition is still at a level where mistakes are common and often inexplicable from the user s point-of-view. As a result, recognition mistakes can cause user distraction andfrustration. We examine how user preference for real-time or batch recognition mode is affected by recognition accuracy and the number of expressions entered. Our results show that users prefer real-time recognition when working with multiple expressions; however, with high accuracy recognition, users did not prefer one recognitionmode over the other.