Check out the Dasher text input system.
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/
It is a text input sytem that uses 2 axis analog inputs, like a mouse,
joystick, or tilt sensor. Its very noise resistant, good for people
with muscle control problems. As long as you don't have to tilt so much
that you can't see the screen, it should work ok for openmoko.
Apparently its available for pocketpc devices, I don't know if any of
them have tilt sensors and have used them for Dasher. Here's a page
about using tilt on a toshiba tablet pc:
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/saw27/dasher/toshtilt/
There's a movie where someone is using tilt for text entry.
Ortwin Regel wrote:
Tilting is an awful control method for almost anything. The main
reason being that you move the screen around while tilting. Other
problems are that it's exausting and lacks feedback. Even tilting to
automatically switch the screen orientation can be annoying if you're
lying on your side in your bed reading an ebook. I can not imagine any
useful contribution of tilting to text input.
Ortwin
On Dec 5, 2007 2:52 PM, Joseph J. McCarthy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
What if you could tilt the Neo to switch keyboards instead. Or,
perhaps,
instead of multi-tap you tilt and press "2" to get "B" instead of hold
horizontal and tap "2" to get "A".
It seems that the accelerometers could be used to make the keyboard
easier to use.
Now that I am typing perhaps the coolest, would be to have something
like a full qwerty with keys that are too big to fit the whole
keyboard
on the screen, but you tilt it to access the off-screen ones (you tilt
left and the keyboard "slides" over so that you can get to the "L"
key).
Just some thoughts.
Joe
Krzysztof Kajkowski wrote:
>
> Wiadomość napisana w dniu Dec 5, 2007, o godz 10:14 AM, przez
Thomas Wood:
>
>>
>> On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 09:20 +0100, Krzysztof Kajkowski wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>> For me it's also finger-usable keyboard - just like the one in
Qtopia.
>>> With that you can operate your phone without stylus (in most
cases).
>>
>> Chris has worked on a multi-tap input method:
>>
>> http://chrislord.net/blog/Software/multitap-pad.enlighten
<http://chrislord.net/blog/Software/multitap-pad.enlighten>
>>
>
> That's wonderful news! What I also like in Qtopia's keyboard is
ability
> to switch between number, symbol and letters keyboard by moving you
> finger down or up on keyboard.
>
>> Obviously T9 will not be implemented due to patent issues. I
will ask
>> him if the source is available anywhere.
>>
>
> T9 is not necessary important (i.e. I do not use english on my
phone so
> probably I would need to hack it to include polish T9 database).
It is
> useful in SMSes but not on writing URLs or console ;)
>
> cayco
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