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| Three-variants: Press and hold, press-twice, or dedicated secondary lock keys. Cover labeling of the modifier key and the individual keys: show the correct mode for virtual keypads, never caps labels when in lower-case, put the shifted label above it and gray if needed, as on a hardware keypad, etc. Make sure to keep consistent: avoid having one lock key and the rest use press-twice, but if you do then make sure there's a reason like access to the fn number pad is needed sometimes; never switch modes between virtual and hardware keyboards, or when you switch between keypad and keyboard, etc. | I like this, and we've even seen an apple stylus patent (and since I typed this, several other tablets have them at shows, Synaptics has new cap screens with pen capability, etc... patterns are well-established and a couple modes (virtual keyboard, natural character entry, short-hand character entry, word entry; generally as a contextual panel, on the screen, the separate entry areas are no longer required technically so are not suggested -- |
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| ABOVE IS WRONG! | , so easy to do, and coming back into vogue so we'd be on the cutting edge. ALSO: I have been thinking that the only issue with handwriting is corrections (not error rate, but fixing errors) and just played with some Windows 7 tablets. They have fixed it. Really want that input panel on my tablet. Some stuff to learn there: reduce clicks, like offer gestures for state changes such as 'correct' which switches to a character entry mode. |
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| Make sure to mention finger-as-stylus inputs. Just emerging, but technically possible to do much the same with letter and handwriting recognition. | Make sure to mention finger-as-stylus inputs as an aside. Just emerging, but technically possible to do much the same with letter and handwriting recognition. |
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| I think cursors are still suggested, for the reason they work on mouse, to express modality; are you on a link, or in a particular tool, you get a different cursor) |
I like this, and we've even seen an apple stylus patent (and since I typed this, several other tablets have them at shows, Synaptics has new cap screens with pen capability, etc... patterns are well-established and a couple modes (virtual keyboard, natural character entry, short-hand character entry, word entry; generally as a contextual panel, on the screen, the separate entry areas are no longer required technically so are not suggested --
, so easy to do, and coming back into vogue so we'd be on the cutting edge. ALSO: I have been thinking that the only issue with handwriting is corrections (not error rate, but fixing errors) and just played with some Windows 7 tablets. They have fixed it. Really want that input panel on my tablet. Some stuff to learn there: reduce clicks, like offer gestures for state changes such as 'correct' which switches to a character entry mode.
Make sure to mention finger-as-stylus inputs as an aside. Just emerging, but technically possible to do much the same with letter and handwriting recognition.
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Value in standing, moving, difficult environments, or for populations (or cultures) with little or no experience with keyboard entry, or no standard keyboard for the data type...
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I think cursors are still suggested, for the reason they work on mouse, to express modality; are you on a link, or in a particular tool, you get a different cursor)
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