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This is a cool idea, but if I consider the speed at which I can touch type versus the speed of my handwriting, this may turn out too slow in the long run. It's
by kleiba 16y ago
This is a cool idea, but if I consider the speed at which I can touch type versus the speed of my handwriting, this may turn out too slow in the long run.
It's too bad the video didn't show an actual person using this system, that should have given a better impression. Also, Fitt's Law may become relevant whenever you try to go back to the circle in the middle without crossing one more line accidentally . The Swype guys seem to have figured that out quite well by predicting which word you're likely to have meant - I wonder if there's anything like this included in the8pen, too?
(P.S.: Justin Timberlake says: "Drop the article in the URL")
- Geee 16y agoIt's really just a matter of implementation to allow "soft" detection of gestures and make the estimate using the probability distribution of words and letters in the dictionary like swype. It seems that there are hard boundaries in the visual system, but I guess it's just gesture detection at heart, which makes it pretty robust and fast in practice. I've been actually prototyping a pretty much similar system, but I'm not sure if it's a worthwhile venture. I guess it should be clearly better to have any competitive advantage.