on screen keyboard enhaced

Dan Staley dlstal2 at uky.edu
Sat May 31 02:58:11 CEST 2008


This was discussed a little on the list before, but I REALLY liked the
quikwriting idea ( http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/demos/quikwriting.html ).
It seems to me this would be the best way to go for finger input...

I believe there is a project open for it...though it doesnt seem very
active.  http://projects.openmoko.org/projects/qwo/

-Dan

On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 16:45 -0400, Ortwin Regel wrote:
> On the actual screen that keyboard is very small. Even if you use a
> stylus, you need to keep a steady hand. I don't think sliding over
> fields that small would be comfortable or fast. It would be unusable
> on a bus/train.
> 
> Ortwin
> 
> On 5/30/08, christooss <christooss at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ortwin Regel wrote:
> >> Yeah, somewhat, but I think our screen might be a little small for it.
> >> I guess it needs to be prototyped.
> >>
> >> Ortwin
> >>
> >>
> > http://sudharsh.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/screenshot-1.png
> >
> > Here is a screenshot of one of onscreen keyboard. And I don't think its
> > so small.
> >
> > And it could be bigger if special characters (&,$,, {,} etc.) were
> > hiden. Maybe a gesture that startes at part of the screen gets you to
> > special characters.
> >
> > I will try this in this weekend. Just mockup app. And than actual porting.
> >
> >> On 5/29/08, George Brooke <solar.george at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Thu, 29 May 2008 22:42:41 +0200
> >>> christooss <christooss at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> One of selected projects in google android is Writing pad which
> >>>> enables writing one word per stroke with on screen keyboard
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBOyGp25sSg
> >>>>
> >>>> What do you think. Could this be useful on OpenMoko?
> >>>>
> >>>> I think its really inovative usage of on screen keyboard. I could try
> >>>> to implement it on desktop machine and than when I get Freerunner
> >>>> port it to OpenMoko.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> How about this (http://www.strout.net/info/ideas/hexinput.html) looks
> >>> like a good idea.
> >>>
> >>> solar.george
> >>>
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