Graffiti (as it pertains to handwriting systems) is a registered trademark of ACCESS Systems Americas, not a generic term; you want to find some alternate terminology.
Sorry, gotta point it out, it's part of my job... Nkoli wrote: > So, there I was pretending my phone has a touchscreen while I wait for > GTA02 when this idea popped into my head for a keyboard alternative. I > would very much like to hear thoughts. The design would remove the > onscreen keyboard completely and replace it with a Graffiti-like > interface that can recognize something as wide as a finger or as tiny > as a stylus. A couple of icons for a symbols list and other essentials > that the user may not want to write out (ex www., .com or greek > letters) will be all that's left of the keyboard. For the sake of > minimalism, the entire screen, excluding the very top or bottom where > the icons are, will be used as the input area. The app should be > activated or deactivated with one touch just like the current > keyboard. It would have to have some excellent text recognition as > well as a built in dictionary to suggest words, which should make up > for any holes in the text recognition. Also, a find as you write > feature will be handy for finding folders in the main menu, names in > the contact list or numbers in the logs, basically reducing scrolling > through areas that aren't primarily text based. The benefits of this > finger graffiti are that it has a learning curve of zero, eliminates > hunting and pecking so anyone can write quickly without needing to get > used to the onscreen keyboard. Oh yeah, it's as fast as you can move > your fingers and it can easily be done one handed. I have little > experience with programming and I hardly do more than write little > time saving scripts nowadays, so I honestly have no concept of what > such an app would take. What d'you guys think? > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > OpenMoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >
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