Back from a 5 hour drive (from SUNY New Paltz where we installed our art installation in preparation for next week's opening) I have some new ideas about one-handed keyboards (and some old ideas about how much I want one).
Here are some other new ideas out there...
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Dasher: zooming eyetracking text entry interface. It looks like a game, it works like the the T9-dictionary in your mobile: it uses "predictions of a language model to determine how much of the world is devoted to each piece of text. Probable pieces of text are given more real-estate, so they are quick and easy to select", and it learns from you. And it's fun to play with. Just do it. [rodcorp]
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Mobile keypad reinvented: easier, faster
The Fastap keyboard (cool demos here), is much faster to use than traditional mobile phone keypads, even those that use predictive text. It's the only complete alpha-numeric keyboard that fits into a small-handset form - they achieve this by interspersing the numbers between the letter keys. Rodcorp says: very nice.
6:15:01 PM  Google It!
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www.chordite.com:
FAQ
Previous chording keyboards haven't been very popular. How is this one different?
One big reason is that the typing fingers don't grip the unit and don't participate in retaining it within the hand. Trust me; this makes it much simpler to use. It's hard to type with fingers that must grip something at the same time. That's why the only portable one-hander you can buy at present, as far as I know, has a big, ugly, wrist strap . Another reason is that the fingers are never far from their relaxed positions. They don't have to curl tightly, which quickly becomes tiring. This keyboard is small enough to be mostly hidden by the hand so it's not so geeky. Since there's no strap, it can go in and out of a pocket quickly. When you actually get one in your hand you see it's great fun to type so casually and with so little effort.
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And there's the Frogpad www.frogpad.com
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