Tim Churches wrote: > 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/
There is also halfkeyboard, which might be exactly what your friend is looking for - see http://www.matias.ca/halfkeyboard/index.php Sound-of-one-hand-clappingly yours, Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
