[IxDA Discuss] Apple's Gesture Dictionary

[Chris Pallé]

To me, this approach seems very intuitive. This is precisely how I  
imagined stepping away from a traditional keyboard back in
http://beta.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=17165#17165

This was before I had the iPhone. I imagined a new type of input  
language using my thumbs with "chords" as defined in the patent.  
Almost as if I had a Playstation controller and "danced" with my  
thumbs on the analog sticks.

As far as the how we define which characters are evoked, I'd think we  
would use the Dvorak science; ie, the most frequently used letters  
get the easiest movements (single stroke) where less frequent  
characters get more complicated chords.

But oh man, the most exciting part is the prospect of text selection  
and copy n paste, etc.



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On Aug 3, 2007, at 1:41 AM, Jack Moffett wrote:

> Apple's most recent patent is for a "multi-touch gesture dictionary".
> I'm most interested in figure 2, which suggests using a thumb and
> finger pinch to cut content, and spread to paste (functions not
> currently available on the iPhone). The patent describes thumb and 2
> finger and 3 finger actions, as well as clockwise and counter
> clockwise gestures. Some of them seem quite intricate, but the simple
> ones could be fairly intuitive. It's an interesting idea.
>
> Article with examples: http://www.macnn.com/blogs/?p=338
> Full Patent: http://tinyurl.com/2xc8mq
>
> Jack
>
>
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