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willwade
2y ago
Interesting. I recently built a non stop drag system for someone who uses it to communicate. The system uses either a dwell or angular detection system to figure out the letters. I wonder though if some path analysis would be better. I wond
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willwade
2y ago
Thats neat. Thanks. I tweaked my little abbreviation maker tool for that. https://abbreviation-finder.streamlit.app
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3y ago
If you watch the film youll realize it was somewhat based on ideas from pictorial languages - mainly Chinese NB Michael Everson has been plugging away at the iso standard for a while https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs
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willwade
3y ago
Simplistic was the aim. Have a watch of the film in the comments above. It was designed as a universal language.
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willwade
3y ago
It took off then stagnated a bit. Used a lot in Canada and Iceland, Norway, Sweden and various parts of the globe eg Eastern Europe. There is various projects further developing it still That book you referenced is cool. But it’s not depict
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willwade
3y ago
Essential listening - https://radiolab.org/podcast/bliss A nice read https://letterformarchive.org/news/blissymbolics/ And the film https://archive.org/details/mrsymbolma
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3y ago
pass a txt file to this: https://abbreviation-finder.streamlit.app
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willwade
3y ago
This is very quick and hacky but https://github.com/willwade/Abbreviation-Finder
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3y ago
Yeah I agree. In reality though - right now - I'd say you might be surprised to what people actually want and need. For example I could assess someone for say a curtain opener or door opener. I have fallen into the trap of assuming th
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3y ago
Theres a lot of patients who "want to help out" Eddie Chang's team in SF have one patient who moved right next to the hospital to equally do this.. (NB: they should be getting paid too by the way - although thats not clear) Y
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3y ago
Sure. The problem is this video somewhat misses how that interaction actually works. You need a control technique of thinking to action. What that actually is and how you learn to use that is missing from the demos. Thats a tad misleading
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3y ago
I hear you. I literally cant use any commercial tracker because of a alternating strabismus and the midas touch effect is a nightmare. I'd argue Apple did that because its such a mess on regular OS where the primary input method isnt e
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3y ago
Some clarity for ppl. - Other techniques would likely work for this patient. Eyegaze technology is pretty readily available. He has proximity switches for driving his chair and lets not forget voice control. So.. what does BCIe offer signi
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willwade
3y ago
This is great. I'd love to see some accessibility aspects added.. This would be MASSIVE for schools with children who are learning to use switches or eyegaze or other access methods and could be educational too. (see https://
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willwade
3y ago
I was so close to buying this. But dang. Im nearly 300Gb of photos. Thats pretty pricey for me since job security right now isnt great. Man the big guys have this sewn up. Here's wishing you guys the best of luck. I'll keep an eye
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3y ago
I'm guessing you know this is research backed as a far more effective system than using prediction (for dyslexic students and many others) right? https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dys.1480 https:&#
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willwade
3y ago
mind sharing?
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willwade
3y ago
neat. is there a version anywhere you can put your own pay in?