On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 00:12, Nandalal Gunaratne wrote:
> Andrew,
> 
> I want you to look at http://www.dasher.com

I downloaded and tried the latest version of dasher under GTK on linux -
it is even better now.

I would dearly love to have dasher on my mobile phone (cell phone) - it
would be vastly superior to the usual abc (cycling letters) and T9
(predictive letters) methods of entering text, which are slow,
cumbersome and hard on the thumb.

I suspect it would be much better that the Graffiti handwritten letter
recognition system used on my PalmPilot too. If it is good on a
PalmPilot, then it would be good on other PDAs.

The question of whether it is suitable for entering notes and orders in
a clinical application, which is used on ward rounds and in other
time-pressured settings (all of clinical medicine and nursing is
time-pressured...) really needs to be answered with some formal,
empirical trials. 

The really nice thing is that it is an open source product.

-- 

Tim C

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