Finger text input idea

[Don Walker]

Werner,

This sounds very much like Quickwriting
http://mrl.nyu.edu/projects/quikwriting/ a version of which was done for
the Agenda VR3 http://agtoys.sourceforge.net/aqw/aqw.html.  I found it
easy to learn and use.  While it was intended for stylus use, perhaps
you can get some ideas...

DonW


On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 06:43 -0300, Werner Almesberger wrote:
> While lamenting the lack of an all-finger environment in OpenMoko,
> the following idea sparked in my mind (nothing of this is
> implemented):
> 
> A wheel with seven segments and very simple gesture recognition
> might do the trick. It would overlay most of the display area,
> but with clever alpha-blending (or equivalent but computationally
> cheaper effects), one may be able to see both the wheel and the
> application information.
> 
> Here's a draft layout:
> http://www.almesberger.net/misc/inw.ps
> 
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