(keitai-l) Re: cn u rd ths w/o kllng me?

Strongly disagree: t9 predictive text input is used by the majority of users
in Europe in my experience. It really works very very well and has evolved
over the years with now very complete dictionaries in all major languages.
What can be simpler than one key input per letter?

John

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The idea of predictive text entry of the sort "just press the first letter
or so and the word pops up"
comes up often in the field. It sounds so seductive, but it doesn't work.
Meaning, it ends up
being much more work for the user, much more mental anguish, and, finally,
much slower, than
just entering the word directly. (It can be made to work in very special
circumstances, my comments apply
to all the usual approaches which you see in commerce.)

See:

http://www.cs.strath.ac.uk/~mdd/research/publications/00dunlopcrossan.html

for some research in this area.

regards,

hag

Howard Gutowitz
CEO, Eatoni Ergonomics, Inc.
www.eatoni.com




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