Perhaps he thinks by presenting the keyboard in that way you will be "more careful" in where you tap your finger..
Worth a test.. but in theory I agree with you.. more dead space = more failed keypresses.."im touching put nothing is happening... Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 17:27:00 +1200 Robin Paulson <robin.paul...@gmail.com> > said: > >> apparently, triangular buttons produce less errors. >> >> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/06/02/crocodile_keyboard/ >> >> i'm not totally convinced, but it would be worth a go, i think > > he's smoking crack. his logic (that more deadspace makes for less mis-presses) > is just wrong. it makes for fewer "presses". you hit the deadspace much more > often and press nothing. if you simply expanded each key to just fill the > rectangular region it ocupies (which it effectively does as that space is > unused and dead) hen you get a no less accurate keyboard than what he as, but > somewhere were u are MORE likely to actually hit a key as opposed to hit > nothing. > > the kbd just makes no sense. making keys bigger is simply the way to make them > more accurate to hit. if that isn't an option an you still do a kbd-style > keyboard, then having some sort of guessing algorithm that guesses what you > meant to hit is all you have left. > > doing a non "qwerty" style is the only other way you have a way out as you > could have fewer keys, now easier to hit, but you may need to hit them > multiple > types (normal abc, def, ghi etc. number keypad style), and even here to avoid > the multiple hits, you need again a guessing algorithm (t9). :) > >> now, is it possible to coerce raster's keyboard into using anything >> other than square keys? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openmoko community mailing list >> community@lists.openmoko.org >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >> > > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community