Re: A product design project

A lot about what you say ignited my project.
It seems even the best keyboard setups and alternative keyboards never
really catch on. a small market share, a "medical" approach to
ergonomics and the laziness of people means these products lack the
sexiness of gaming peripherals. What I am interested in is designing a
capable product which will be as desirable as other high end gadgets.

As far as handwriting methods are concerned - their relatively slow
speed when compared to other methods (such as chord keyboards) is a
problem. Even Quikwrite is about half as fast as QWERTY - ~65 WPM
compared to ~35 based on some studies.

Chording keyboard is the second choice sporting an average speed of
little less than 50 WPM by the average user.

Smart virtual keyboards also have a high speed average, but suffer
from an extremely high error ratio.

Did anyone here have any experience with chording keyboards or
Quikwrite? I am looking for people to answer some questions. I didn't
find these keyboards to try them myself as of yet.

Thanks for the feedback!

--- In [email protected], "Felipe Barros Corr�a de
Oliveira" <felipeahura@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Dragomir,
> 
> I believe this attempts are exactly the same to handwriting, as the
Dvorak
> is to touch typing... they are great, would make everybody lifes better,
> increase productivity and all that stuff we are all tired of knowing
here,
> but everyone else doesn't seems to care... People want what is easy, not
> what is better... with Esperanto (the language created to be
universal but
> that will never be) happened the same thing... not saying it is an
"ergo"
> (or any other word that i don't have in my poor english vocabulary)
> language, or a productivity focused language, but it was also created to
> make life better, but people would have a lot of work to learn a new
> language that isn't fashion... Madonna made americans (and not only
> americans) run to learn Hebrew when she made publicity about
studying it, so
> maybe thats the tip... maybe we need to make a wearable fashion Dvorak
> keyboard, find a big artist to wear it and stuff like that for it to be
> really used,... at least, it seems that the only way for the people
to give
> voice to alternative systems, is not focusing on what it have
better, but
> focusing on how it wears good... :)
> 
> Greetings from the Wood,
> 
> Felipe Barros
> 
> 
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