Autocorrecting text input using small buttons and keypress location-based heuristics

[Jani-Matti Hätinen]

	Hi,

I'm guessing that this is the right list for this stuff. Please advise, if 
this is not the case.

I've been sketching different on-screen keyboard layouts and while doing that 
I had this idea:
  What if, instead of simply recording a glyph, with each keypress the input 
system would record the exact on-screen position (or area) which was pressed. 
This position/area would then be compared to the positioning of keys on the 
on-screen keyboard, and a probability distribution of keys/glyphs would be 
generated.
  These probability distributions could then be used to correct/predict the 
entered text on a word-by-word basis.

If this were to work in any reliable way, we could use comparatively small 
on-screen keys even for thumb input, and use this technique to fix some, if 
not most, of the resulting typos.

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Jani-Matti Hätinen