From: owner-3dui@hitl.washington.edu on behalf of Ivan Poupyrev
[poup@csl.sony.co.jp]
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 11:15 AM
To: 3D UI list
Subject: Re: text/number input in VEs

> The pinch keyboard that we did doesn't involve handwriting at
> all. It uses pinch gloves to simulate a QWERTY keyboard, so
> users can transfer their existing knowledge of the keyboard
> layout. You pinch the finger that would normally type a letter
> (e.g. left pinky finger for 'a') to the thumb on the same

Doug,

You might be interested to take a look at the Glove-Talk system
by Sydney Fels. He published a paper at CHI few years ago. He
was using hand gestures captured by
data glove to synthesize voice, so you could speak by gesturing.
Text input was part of the system, I suppouse.

http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~ssfels/fpub.html

ivan