Saturday, December 13, 2014

Definition: One-Hand Typing with Your Cell Phone

One-hand typing after a stroke used to be very, very slow!
Not now - Minuum, Swype, SwiftKey, Fleksy, Adaptxt, ..., works very fast and very simple!
P.S. I tried 3 of the 5 type of keyboards - all of them are very good!

Minuum and 12 Videos
As well see the different style, keyboard, colour, algorithms, ... etc:
         ▶  Swype From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
         ▶  SwiftKey From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
         ▶  Fleksy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
         ▶  Adaptxt From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Minuum [mi-n'yü-əm] not on the Wikipedia YET...

Some quote from the text from Minuum keyboard:
The Minuum keyboard is smarter, faster, and works on any size of device. How does a tiny keyboard work with big fingers? It knows what you want to type, even when you miss every letter.  
Model Your Users:
      Algorithms Behind the Minuum Keyboard
Jan 23, 2014 / Posted by Xavier Snelgrove
When you’re creating a new keyboard technology, there’s a ton of work that goes into both the interaction design, and into the algorithms behind the scenes. While the design of our keyboard is best understood simply by using it, the real “magic” that makes our one-dimensional keyboard possible lies in the statistical algorithms that make it tick. 
If you haven’t already seen or used the Minuum keyboard, the brief summary is that we let you compress the conventional keyboard down to just one row of keys, opening up the possibility of typing anywhere where you can measure one dimension of input.
By shrinking the keyboard in this way we soon had to grapple with a basic fact: human input is imprecise, and the faster you type the more imprecise it gets. Rather than trying to improve user precision, we instead embrace sloppy typing.
This only works because we use disambiguation in addition to auto-correction. While “auto-correction” implies that you made a mistake that needed correcting, “disambiguation” accepts the fundamental ambiguity of human interaction, and uses an understanding of language to narrow things down. Think of it like speech recognition: in a noisy bar, the problem isn’t that your friends are speaking incorrectly; human speech is ambiguous, and the noisiness of the environment sure doesn’t help. You can only understand them because you have prior knowledge of the sorts of things they are likely to say.
Which leads us into the wonderful world of…
See the whole Minuum article by: 
      Xavier Snelgrove - Bayesian statistics! and more....



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