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Ten Finger Touch Screen Keyboard

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Re: Ten Finger Touch Screen Keyboard

#3
I'm surprised that they emphasize the fact that the keyboard can be invisible or small. Personally I think that's the most confusing feature because it leaves you tapping on the screen, or website as in the video. That aspect to me is not very intuitive as to whether or not I'm typing currently or trying to navigate the website by tapping a link, etc. Also, if it's invisible, how do you know when the keyboard is brought up on screen? Does it appear and then quickly fade away, or does it appear at all? Both cases seem unnatural at least to me, since I'm just not used to it.

Other than that, I think it looks pretty awesome. The multi-finger gesture typing looks pretty quick and intuitive.

Re: Ten Finger Touch Screen Keyboard

#7
It frustrates me that there's no mention of Android. This could have been a working demo with an APK provided. I'm not sure about the overlay mode but it may be possible.

edit: As an update to this, it looks like it's possible the keyboard could be set to a 0 height View, and the Candidates view could be used, as that does not cause an application to be resized.

Re: Ten Finger Touch Screen Keyboard

#9
post #2

Direct link to the virtual keyboard trainer (set your input manager to US/qwerty first): http://asetniop.com/keyboardTutorial.html

Very cool, but the fact that the keyboard on the screen doesn't match the output (input?) nor the asetniop 'idea' makes it incredibly confusing and was enough for me to say 'ok, I'm done'. Unless it's just a problem that I'm experiencing, it doesn't seem like the author (or anyone) ever tested this tutorial out.

Re: Ten Finger Touch Screen Keyboard

#10
I don't think any method of input that relies on auto-complete, suggestions or predictions can ever reach the utility of a physical keyboard. Also, most people have invested years learning the normal qwerty keyboard, I don't see how people would be willing to adopt anything new unless it's better in all cases (including corner cases like !/\{}[]), or they have absolutely no choice (T9).

The only way I could see any improvement for touch screens is if you could track finger tips while they're hoovering, so that you get more information to disambiguate what the user is intending.

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