<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 28/06/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Fabien</b> <<a href="mailto:fleutot+openmoko@gmail.com">fleutot+openmoko@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<span class="q">On 6/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robin Paulson</b> <<a href="mailto:robin.paulson@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">robin.paulson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
</span><div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
someone on this list had a similar idea for enlarging number keys i<br>think, they would appear or resize depending on context iirc?<br><a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/usingiphone/keyboard_large.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.apple.com/iphone/usingiphone/keyboard_large.html
</a></blockquote></span><div><br>That's shiny and beautiful, but of limited use: the key becomes bigger
*after* it's been hit, too late to help the user aiming. Well, actually
it's still got a practical use: it helps notice when one hits the wrong
key (I guess no human being could type without looking at the keyboard
on an iphone).
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>This immediately made me think of enlarging keys on a predictive basis. Not sure it is that useful but it was an amusing thought.<br><br>-Pete <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div>A more interesting track would be some sort of transparent
full-screen input device: something that lets you see your text, but
also lets you use the whole touch surface to type more accurately.
Besides, that would be one of the extremely few cases where
transparency effects improve usability instead of hurting it :)
<br><br>If you want to go further, you can combine fullscreen-ness
with motions, instead of simply touches, thus augmenting the number of
immediately accessible symbols, or reducing the required level of
accuracy. There was a startup, a couple of years ago, which produced a
very cool (soft or hard) input device, based on a 3x3 grid, which was
fast, mnemotechnically friendly and easy to implement. Unfortunately,
they're out of business, I can't remember their name and they aren't
listed on the openmoko wiki. If anyone has a better memory... <br></div></div>
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