[ExI] Single-hand touch typing in Ender's Game

Will Steinberg steinberg.will at gmail.com
Fri Nov 15 20:02:53 UTC 2013


Swype is really novel and has changed the way I write on phones.


On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Eugenio Martínez <
rolandodegilead at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well.. I mean, the only ones easily affordables that we have in reality,
> of course, ha ha.
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> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 5:45 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
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>> 2013/11/15 Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org>
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>> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:56:57AM -0500, Odell Huff wrote:
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>> > Dear Cave Shadows--I'm a twenty-year lurker on this list and this is my
>> > first post, or question rather. In the (enthralling!) movie, Ender types
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>> Two-decade lurker, that's got to be a new record.
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>> > complete-sentence emails with one hand on a touch screen. Does this
>> > technology actually exist, or could it? I was thinking I would very much
>> > like to take notes mobilely, on say an iPhone, the writing equivalent
>> to a
>> > micro recorder. It seems to me the tech would be easy, the hard part
>> might
>> > be having to learn to type like a court reporter...
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>> You mean a chorded keyboard on a multitouch device?
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>> http://labs.teague.com/2012/02/08/doug-engelbarts-chorded-keyboard-as-a-multi-touch-interface/
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>> Some of you guys might have been around in the early to mid 90s when we
>> had a wearable computer group; Eugen I vaguely recall seeing you there but
>> I might be mistaken.  I was a lurker on ExI in those days, but the
>> wearables group almost predated ExI-chat.
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>> We had a vision going back to about 1989 when I saw a demonstration of a
>> head-up display at a trade show.  It wasn’t good resolution, but it was
>> good enough for grainy graphics and 640x480 resolution text, which was
>> common in those primitive savage days.  The data egg or one-handed keyboard
>> was big then.  We debated if that would be the way, or speech recognition.
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>> >…Dear Cave Shadows--I'm a twenty-year lurker on this list…
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>> In retrospect, it is interesting that the bulk of this discussion on data
>> eggs vs speech rec happened twenty years ago, but it wasn’t really here, it
>> was on another group.  I think ExI-chat took it up mostly in the later 90s.
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>> spike
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