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Comment on Triangular Keys for Your Touchscreen Virtual Keyboard by R. Davies

R. Davies — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:49:23 +0000

The white key on white background illustrated above does not represent what I believe will be the final version. If the light centre triangle key sits within a dark triangular background, I think that there will be tendency for more accurate key strikes for those that do not “touch type” (i.e. they look at each key). The background research I have done supports this conclusion. The way humans respond to triangular shapes allows them to find the centre of the key quickly and accurately.
The scaleability requires further testing but the prototype I have seen suggests that it works very well. The issue of seeing the letter will be largely determined by the font style used, and key colour constrast rather than the size. The one I saw went down to somewhere around 6pt in Arial and I could still see it quite will even though my eyesight is not that good.
While the handheld parket is likely to the first, I think that we will see its most effective application in industrial / defence / lowlight situations where users are not habitual users of keyboards.

Comment on Aggressive Pink Ride by Joseph

Joseph — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:00:20 +0000

While surfing Velospace I saw a similar frame. This frame may be a Affinity XS LOPRO sloping track.

Comment on Triangular Keys for Your Touchscreen Virtual Keyboard by Chris Mordue

Chris Mordue — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:11:36 +0000

Great analysis! I think as well that with triangular keys that the letters inside of them will be smaller, making them harder to see, and this, also more dificult to use, especially for non-letter keys (number, puncuation, symbols) that aren’t in the same locations as a full qwerty keyboard.

Comment on Bike Picnic at the Sammamish River Park by Joseph

Joseph — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:57:42 +0000

Joanne, this is all I did for the 3-day weekend! Very humble compared to you…

Comment on Bike Picnic at the Sammamish River Park by the cool Jo

the cool Jo — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:48:56 +0000

lies all lies! you said you cant do anything be july. arggg

well, it sounds pretty cool what you did though. glad you had fun ^_^

Comment on Bike Picnic at the Sammamish River Park by TinyFox

TinyFox — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:45:12 +0000

like the way you called it logistics.

Comment on What Makes a World-Class Software, Part 1 by Joseph

Joseph — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:58:27 +0000

Hmm…this looks more like a failure in community facilitation. It is critical for community-centric services, but not a software issue per se.

Good thing to watch out for community dependent start-ups though!

Comment on What Makes a World-Class Software, Part 1 by TinyFox

TinyFox — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:52:35 +0000

http://www.dearjohn.idv.tw/1934

This can be another example. :3

Comment on What Makes a World-Class Software, Part 1 by mike

mike — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:37:19 +0000

Hey Joseph, nice blog! I credit Asianavenue.com as the father to modern social networking. At least for me! Anyway, I look forward to your next post!

Comment on What Makes a World-Class Software, Part 1 by TinyFox

TinyFox — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:52:30 +0000

Man, nice to see you get your blog set up. :3