information efficient text enty using dasher

Joe Pfeiffer jjpfeifferjr at comcast.net
Tue May 29 21:34:21 CEST 2007


Peter Hoffmann writes:
>Hi
>
>i just stumbled over a video at the google talks series[0]  about
>information-efficient text entry using dasher[1].
>
>I think this is quite an interesting input method for mobile devices
>with touch screens or motion sensors. And it is open source and its user
>interface is based on gtk.

Interesting, yes -- there's a demo at
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/TryJavaDasherNow.html
My experience (granted, using mouse rather than stylus) was that it
was pretty hard to actually use.




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