From: owner-3dui@hitl.washington.edu on behalf of Chris Shaw
[cdshaw@grenfell.cc.gt.atl.ga.us]
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 10:58 AM
To: 3dui List
Subject: Re: text/number input in VEs

Doug,

I suggest you consider a different layout for Quikwriting.
The current layout is hard to learn, and is based on back-of-the
envelope statistics.

> Thanks for the pointer to Quikwriting - I wasn't aware of it.
> (Also thanks to Lorenzo Pastrana, who pointed out the same
> site.) I think that such a system might be able to work on
> a pen & tablet setup, but it would still have to be large
> in order to minimize tracking areas. You could also hold a
> real PDA in your hand, but it would be difficult to place the
> stylus in the correct position since you couldn't see the PDA
> (assuming an HMD-based system).

Note that this thing works in the Palm Graffitti area. It is successful
in less than one square inch. (Which is visible, of course!)

-- 
Chris Shaw                Senior Research Scientist     GVU Center
cdshaw@cc.gatech.edu      College of Computing          Georgia Tech
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~cdshaw