[Tfug] Virtual Keyboard

[Bexley Hall]

Hi, Joe,

--- jblais <joe.blais at pti-instruments.com> wrote:

> We were just looking for unusual stuff for our next
> machine, so I was wondering if anyone ever played
> with something like this..

Did *you* guys play with any of them?

> Performance:
> ·         Canesta's usability tests show typists
> capable of entering
> 65-to-80 words per minute at a 2.5-to-3 percent
> error rate on a traditional
> keyboard are able to type 45-to-50 wpm at a 5
> percent error rate on the
> company's projectable keys. That's twice the 25 wpm
> rate and similar to the
> accuracy level of users entering text on small
> "thumb" keyboards used on

Yeah, and ~ *half* the rate (and twice the error rate)
of a "real" keyboard.  :-/

> many PDAs today, said Joep van Beurden, the vice
> president of sales and
> marketing at Canesta (San Jose, Calif.).
> Websites:
> http://www.virtual-laser-keyboard.com/
>
http://www.alpern.org/weblog/stories/2003/01/09/projectionKeyboards.html

I'm waiting for an OLED touch panel...

--don


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