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jda5id · 02-21-03, 02:47 PM

I came across this when I was downloading some other stuff off of a site. It is an entirely novel way of doing text entry where you never take the stylus off of the screen but rather use a series of continuous line movements to input text. It was originally developed by a computer scientist at NYU and he submitted an academic paper where he stated it was up to 3X faster than graffiti once the user had spent a few hours working with it. It definitely has a *much* steeper learning curve than graffiti, but since I haven't had much luck with the other input methods on my Axim I figured I would give it a shot (not ever having owned a palm I am not graffiti literate).

After just a few minutes of use I can find myself getting into the flow and that it will be a fairly fast input system. I won't be writing War and Peace with it, but heck, that is what my PocketOp is for...

Here is a link to the original (I like this one better). They also have a "game" to help you hone your ability:
Quikwriting
http://mrl.nyu.edu/projects/quikwriting/

Here is another take on the same concept (I tried this one first):
KeystrokeCE
http://www.scottandmichelle.net/scott/cestuff.html

02-21-03, 02:47 PM	#1 (permalink)
jda5id Aximsite Minor League Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Texas, USA Posts: 189 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Different text input method (up to 3X faster than Graffiti!!) I came across this when I was downloading some other stuff off of a site. It is an entirely novel way of doing text entry where you never take the stylus off of the screen but rather use a series of continuous line movements to input text. It was originally developed by a computer scientist at NYU and he submitted an academic paper where he stated it was up to 3X faster than graffiti once the user had spent a few hours working with it. It definitely has a much steeper learning curve than graffiti, but since I haven't had much luck with the other input methods on my Axim I figured I would give it a shot (not ever having owned a palm I am not graffiti literate). After just a few minutes of use I can find myself getting into the flow and that it will be a fairly fast input system. I won't be writing War and Peace with it, but heck, that is what my PocketOp is for... Here is a link to the original (I like this one better). They also have a "game" to help you hone your ability: Quikwriting http://mrl.nyu.edu/projects/quikwriting/ Here is another take on the same concept (I tried this one first): KeystrokeCE http://www.scottandmichelle.net/scott/cestuff.html Last edited by jda5id; 02-21-03 at 04:47 PM.