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I wonder if a version of this for mobile phones could make typing on a phone faster than fumbling with a touch screen.

by sanqui 11y ago

jerf 11y ago
Mmmm... that was a great deal slower than me using the latest Android swiping support, even counting errors. Can't speak to the other mobile tech stacks, but if you're typing on a phone is slower than that you might want to poke around, you may be missing a technology already installed on it. (Not a criticism of the excellent work here. It's a fundamental bandwidth problem.) Concretely: In the time the demo took to write "Meet OptiKey. Full computer control and speech using only your eyes.", I wrote in an Android text area: "I am just typing words as quickly as I can in the android interface. I'm even having to think a bit about it more that I've written so much. uh, hello world? and other stuff. I'm still going and going and going." Including the missing "now" between "more" and "that", and you can't see it but I had to correct 3 words, too. That's about three times faster on the phone I have in my pocket. And let me just say... that is impressive performance for a free eye tracking suite, in my opinion, to still be that fast with just eyes.
- OptiKey 11y ago
  No you're right. Dexterous fingers beats eye tracking for text input, but my target audience can't use their hands so this is (hopefully) a good alternative.
  - jerf 11y ago
    Please allow me to reiterate: I'm impressed with your work. Nothing there was a criticism. In fact it struck me as well-designed.
- JeffKang2 11y ago
  You'd perhaps need something like this to come closer: >Microsoft patents eye-tracking keyboard software The idea’s just like swipe-based keyboard software, but instead of tracking the motion of your fingertip, the system tracks eye movement. As your glance moves from key to key, darting around and changing direction, a devices camera records its gaze, and with a little algorithm magic, Microsoft tries to work out just which keys you were looking at – and ultimately, what word you were attempting to construct. http://pocketnow.com/2014/12/24/eye-tracking-keyboard http://pocketnow.com/2014/12/24/eye-tracking-keyboard
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I wonder if a version of this for mobile phones could make typing on a phone faster than fumbling with a touch screen.

by sanqui 11y ago

I wonder if a version of this for mobile phones could make typing on a phone faster than fumbling with a touch screen.

jerf 11y ago

Mmmm... that was a great deal slower than me using the latest Android swiping support, even counting errors. Can't speak to the other mobile tech stacks, but if you're typing on a phone is slower than that you might want to poke around, you may be missing a technology already installed on it. (Not a criticism of the excellent work here. It's a fundamental bandwidth problem.) Concretely: In the time the demo took to write "Meet OptiKey. Full computer control and speech using only your eyes.", I wrote in an Android text area: "I am just typing words as quickly as I can in the android interface. I'm even having to think a bit about it more that I've written so much. uh, hello world? and other stuff. I'm still going and going and going." Including the missing "now" between "more" and "that", and you can't see it but I had to correct 3 words, too. That's about three times faster on the phone I have in my pocket. And let me just say... that is impressive performance for a free eye tracking suite, in my opinion, to still be that fast with just eyes.

OptiKey 11y ago
No you're right. Dexterous fingers beats eye tracking for text input, but my target audience can't use their hands so this is (hopefully) a good alternative.
- jerf 11y ago
  Please allow me to reiterate: I'm impressed with your work. Nothing there was a criticism. In fact it struck me as well-designed.
JeffKang2 11y ago
You'd perhaps need something like this to come closer: >Microsoft patents eye-tracking keyboard software The idea’s just like swipe-based keyboard software, but instead of tracking the motion of your fingertip, the system tracks eye movement. As your glance moves from key to key, darting around and changing direction, a devices camera records its gaze, and with a little algorithm magic, Microsoft tries to work out just which keys you were looking at – and ultimately, what word you were attempting to construct. http://pocketnow.com/2014/12/24/eye-tracking-keyboard http://pocketnow.com/2014/12/24/eye-tracking-keyboard

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