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Researchers Design New Tiny QWERTY Soft Keyboards for Wearable Devices

posted by CoolHand on Monday May 11 2015, @05:41AM   Printer-friendly
from the taking-things-too-far dept.

fliptop writes:

Spotted on acm.org:

Technology developed at the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the University of Stuttgart could serve as a text-entry system for wearable devices that have touchscreens. The tiny QWERTY soft keyboard could enable users to answer or enter text on wearable devices that have limited onscreen space, such as smart watches, smart glasses, and digital jewelry.

The Spanish and German researchers designed two keyboard prototypes for different screen sizes, between 16 and 32 mm. The first, named Callout, creates a callout showing a character that is about to be entered in a non-occluded location, such as the upper part of the screen. The second, called ZShift, improves on Callout by enhancing the callout area with one level of zoom of the occluded area, while also providing visual feedback on the key touched.

Screens the size of a coin? Not without my reading glasses.

 
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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by FatPhil on Monday May 11 2015, @08:53AM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Monday May 11 2015, @08:53AM (#181410) Homepage
    Morse. Worked 100 years ago, no reason why it couldn't work today. You don't even need to look at your screen while tapping away at it. Might require too much cognitive capability than the youngsters of today are capable of, but at least they'd not need to worry about upper case vs. lower case again, which would fit in with their current linguistic traits.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11 2015, @09:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11 2015, @09:05AM (#181415)

    Learning 12 number pad text was easy enough to remember, but i always turn off predivtive text so this sounds splufrerus.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11 2015, @12:37PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11 2015, @12:37PM (#181441)

    Agreed, morse seems great for:
    Caps vs non-caps.
    Symbols.
    Non-western alphabets.

    I'm looking forward to learning all those morse codes!

  • (Score: 2) by cafebabe on Monday May 11 2015, @09:00PM

    by cafebabe (894) on Monday May 11 2015, @09:00PM (#181645) Journal

    I was hoping for something akin to a dual Morse key [wikipedia.org] with numeric keys 1, 4 and 7 for dot and keys 3, 6 and 9 for dash.

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    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday May 11 2015, @10:36PM

      by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Monday May 11 2015, @10:36PM (#181680) Homepage
      "Iambic (dual-lever) Paddles"

      Dooood, don't do that to me! I read "lambic ..." and got all excited.
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