Dr Hugh Nelson wrote: > I have an IT friend whose mental abilities remain excellent but he has a > clumsy right arm since a CVA. > > There was a one handed keypad for data entry - the Microwriter - in UK > back in the 80's, but the company folded. > http://www.bellaire.demon.co.uk/ has a thing called a CyKey > > Any comments on useful things for one handed typing?
Not really typing but I was impressed by Dasher - see http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/ - but their Web site seems to be down as I write this. Dasher is deliberately free of patents and open source implementations exist. Also not really typing, IBM have an impressive stylus (or mouse) based system called SHARK which uses "sokgraphs", but it is patented to the hilt and they have not licensed or produced any commercial implementations. There is a free demo available but it is not useful for real work. A pity. See http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/sharktext But if your friend is after a chording text entry system like the old MicroWriter (I remember those), then the Twiddler2 might be the go - see http://www.handykey.com/ Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
