Just an information about: " That will be a very different layout than someone who does<br>
short hand or abbreviated messaging." the layouts are not so different as you think... Using the same language on conversations if you produce a layout optimized to that language it will cover the full word and the abbreviated one. Check this paper :
<a href="http://www.almaden.ibm.com/u/zhai/papers/ZhaiHunterSmithHCIGalley.pdf">http://www.almaden.ibm.com/u/zhai/papers/ZhaiHunterSmithHCIGalley.pdf</a> on "Digraph Frequency"<br><br>Guy<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 11:35, "Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik" wrote:<br>> On 20:15:37 2007-08-26 "Edwin Lock" <<a href="mailto:edwinlock@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
edwinlock@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> So you have to get used to it every time again? doesn't seem like a<br>>> very<br>>> good idea.<br>>> My experience is that people like to get used to things and do them
<br>>> like the got used to, not change..<br>>><br>>> - Edwin<br>>><br>><br>> A dynamic <span name="st">input</span>... I like it... But let's put it this way... it<br>
> shouldn't<br>> be to hard to add an option to either use a dynamic <span name="st">input</span> or a<br>> pre-defined/custom<br>> static one. Give the user the final choice. But then that's just me...
<br>> I<br>> like the user having as much choice as possible.<br>><br>> --<br>> Andraž "ruskie" Levstik<br><br>Ok, I didn't actually mean after each and every keystroke. I was trying<br>to float the idea. The actual implementation would obviously be up to
<br>some kind of experimentation.<br><br>I can't see how removing the unused characters and adding more used<br>characters could be a bad thing. Granted you let the user decide to<br>switch and always have the ability to go back to default.. But each user
<br>will have a different vocabulary and thus a different optimization<br>specifically for them.<br><br>as a bad example take someone who always talks in leet speek when<br>messaging. That will be a very different layout than someone who does
<br>short hand or abbreviated messaging. If the program could figure out,<br>say each night or when the user chooses or what not, which letters or<br>symbols they use most and build an appropriate step heirarchy then you
<br>
could optimize the path for fewest drag type operations and more click<br>operations. Or at least that's how it seems to me. Then once the<br>sequences are determined, let the user position them on the grid in a<br>
manner that feels right to them. For each user that might be different.
<br><br>Anyway, some will like it and some will disable it in favor of the<br>default or non-assisted but customly defined layout. Personally, I<br>would not mind having the least used letters changed out for more used<br>
letters based on my usage patters in a semi automatic way, if I could<br>anchor my most used letters to positions where they feel comfortable.<br>--Tim</blockquote>