I posted a few months ago about a PC keyboard that uses a Bell keypad and predictive text. Now Carlo Longino at MobHappy spotted this in USA Today:
Link: Text Games, On Paper (mobhappy.com)
Morten Hjerde has taken a long hard look at text input field design.
“Edit-in-place is preferable in most cases. A person can see the context, and the visuals is consistent. Full screen editing is preferable when the user is likely to enter a large amount of text. Predictive text (T9, etc) may only be available in [...]
What’s new is old. Cre8txt has made a keyboard for PCs that uses a Bell Keypad-based predictive text input system that is “designed to capture the texting skills that so many young people have and allow those skills to be used to input words onto a computer”.
Link: cre8txt (creatxt.com, via)
“This paper is organized as follows. We begin with a brief historical background of mobile and handheld devices. This is important because it juxtaposes the efforts of researchers with the corporations that created early mobile and handheld devices. Following this, we offer some opinions and observations on the evaluation of text input techniques. Many, but [...]
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