Will the Keyboard Become Superfluous?
Will the Keyboard Become Superfluous? Monday May 31, 2004While computers cannot quite read your mind yet, they are getting closer. Many people are already familiar with word completion functionality, for example on mobile phones or handheld devices, where the user enters the first few letters and the software tries to guess the rest. A new open source software from the University of Cambridge in England promises the ability to enter text into a computer simply by looking at letters no more typing. David J. C. McKay from the University of Cambridge explains the interface: “Imagine sky diving onto a world painted with alternative letters, each its own field, and within each of those fields are smaller fields… painted with one letter from the alphabet. By steering through the big fields into smaller fields you choose a sequence of letters.” Get the whole story here. Comments (1)See All Posts
Will the Keyboard Become Superfluous? Monday May 31, 2004While computers cannot quite read your mind yet, they are getting closer. Many people are already familiar with word completion functionality, for example on mobile phones or handheld devices, where the user enters the first few letters and the software tries to guess the rest. A new open source software from the University of Cambridge in England promises the ability to enter text into a computer simply by looking at letters no more typing. David J. C. McKay from the University of Cambridge explains the interface: “Imagine sky diving onto a world painted with alternative letters, each its own field, and within each of those fields are smaller fields… painted with one letter from the alphabet. By steering through the big fields into smaller fields you choose a sequence of letters.” Get the whole story here. Comments (1)See All Posts
