Salve David! On Tue, 05 Dec 2006, David Ormsbee wrote:
> Hey there, > > >This thread have some interesting other key input systems as well > >and I like David's demo > >> http://dave.hereticmonkey.com/musings/phone_keyboard.html > >but correct me if I would be wrong - this are only single > >touch concepts. > > They are single touch concepts, but I think that's important for a > phone. Of course - but beside using one pen, one finger multitouch give us a chance of new, more powerfull concepts. :) And when we do speak out this ideas that it will be our technique - an open one :) > I think that the text input system for a phone should still > work when the user only has one hand available. Multi-touch != multi-hand You remind me to write "of course will encrease the posibility to write with two hands with multi-touch (1,2,3,4, or five fingers) the power to code the input functions - when just one hand got the power of 4096 (or more) different information imputs with multitouch and movement - by doing it with two hands it will give the power of 4096²=16777216 :))))))) Don't get me wrong - of coure I don't think that many people would learn 16777216 combinations to type faster... I just wanted to show the power of code with multi-touch (even without multi-colour) Interesting would be the combination without moving the touchpoints 64*64=4096 so real fast typing would be possible. But the huge number of codes would not only allow commands/function inside an application and system wide - it would allow to use stenographie concepts but also with variables inside a text modul: "i" with 1/4 turning in clock direktion could be: "I'm now $gps.localisation.now.name" "i" with 1/2 turning in clock direktion could be: "My next date will be at $calendar.date.next.time o'clock at $calendar.date.next.localisation" Or have text modules without given variable values c with 1/2 turning in clock direction "I would like to cook $ask.what_to_cook this evening with you." So when i type c with 1/2 turning would print I would like to cook $ask.what_to_cook this evening with you. on the screen and a pop up window would ask me "What to cook?" some movement of "f p f" would create "Pizza Fungi" So to type "I would like to cook pizza fungi this evening with you." Would need the input of "c f p f" (with some movements) The popup for food could remind me the classes of food "fish, beaf, pizza" and choocing the subclass pizza the next subclasses "magaritha, fungi..." BTW i liked the multi clipboard hack for the palm and would like to see it with openmoko as well - so the latest quotes could be choosable on the screen or get hotkeys :) > I see people using > their phones like this all the time. They might be standing on the > bus, with one hand holding a railing, and the other holding their > phone. So then you have only on hand to hold your device and to use the same hand for typing. > Then again, it's possible that the advantages of using multi-touch for > text input will be so great that it's better to just use it and have a > different keyboard mode to drop into if you only have one hand > available. I am really looking forward to trying this out when > somebody codes it up. :-) Of course - I do not disagree - qoute from my mail: >> First let me say that I do not think that one text input system >> will be fit/the best for every Neo1973 user and also for every >> situation. Interaction like normal mobile 2=a 22=b 222=c >> will be a must have like a virtual querty/querz keyboard. >> This thread have some interesting other key input systems as well >> and I like David's demo >> http://dave.hereticmonkey.com/musings/phone_keyboard.html >> but correct me if I would be wrong - this are only single >> touch concepts. So please go ahead with your concept :) Single finger import is important, too ;)) But I wanted to remind that beside single touch concept, real *new* concepts (without patent protections) could be possible - and this concpets could suport real fast key import that you don't have the need for a external querty keyboard :)))) Greetings, rob _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community
