I guess most people who have entered text on a mobile phone using a multi-tap or predictive text method would feel at ease doing the same on a mobile phone. Potential issues:
1) Keys on remotes usually having much different feel from those on a mobile phone keypad, so it may be difficult to quickly do repeated key presses for multitap 2) The distance between the keys (on the remote) and the text display (on the screen). I've seen on-screen keyboards, haven't tried to use them but I think it would be quite hard and slow to type anything on them. Some STB manufacturers now have optional wireless (IR) keyboards with their STBs, but I'm not sure widely deployed those have been. Hope this helps, Alex On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 7:21 PM, sajid saiyed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I would like to know opinions or prior experiences on the issue of > handling 'text entry on screen' for UI's which are controlled by a > remote (a remote with keypad). > > Do your users prefer a particular approach over other? > Is there a best (or a good) remote keypad layout for text entry? > How do you deal with this issue when the keypad has only numbers and arrow > keys? > or > How does it change when you have a ball or a scroll pad on remote? > > I understand that this is a very broad question because a lot can > change based on layout of the remote, controls on the remote like > scrolls, cursors, ball etc. > Still I wanted to get a feeling of different kinds of issues you have > come across for any type of remote based text entry. > > -sajid > http://www.ssdesigninteractive.com/blog > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
