You need to talk to Arun Mehta - who developed this -
http://www.skid.org.in/

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Aadisht Khanna [04/05/11 15:23 +0530]:
Hello,

someone I know just passed a query on to me, and I thought people on
silk would probably be able to help.

He knows two school-age children with a neuromuscular disorder (but
doesn't have details of which one), which prevents them from writing or
typing. However, they are able to use X-Box controllers.

At present, they're using something called XPADDER which lets you use
the controller as a mouse on a PC, and also assigns some keys to the
controller buttons. For text entry, they use an onscreen keyboard.

Mouse+onscreen keyboard is still a cumbersome and time-consuming way to
enter text, so they're now trying to see if they can combine this with a
software T9 keyboard so that predictive text reduces the time requirement.

I'll use his own words for now:

QUOTE:

in short: we need an application that defines the buttons on a xbox
controller as the command functions of the normal keyboard and can type
in a on screen T9 numerical keypad with word prediction function as
found on mobile phones.

Perhaps even better, but not found on any site on the internet would be
a combination of a numerical keyboard (like the num keypad accessory for
laptops and mobile phones) and the Xbox controller (imagine a xbox
controller cut in half, with a num pad glued to it), so you can have the
mouse functions under your left thumb and writing function under your
right thumb.

hopefully you are able to help us in combining (or developing) the
requested functionalities!

END QUOTE

Does anybody know of something that can solve their problem?



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