Re: [g-a-devel] GOK and a different way of show keyboard

[David Bolter <david bolter utoronto ca>]

Hello and welcome to the list!

GOK has been designed to be highly customizable. I don't know how much 
you know about GOK (and Onscreen Keyboards in general) so I'm not sure 
what to say ;-)

I think you can do what you are attempting by customizing GOK. One area 
of GOK which we haven't had time to implement is described here: 
http://www.gok.ca/morse.html  The figure on this page is not necessarily 
what the user would see, but describes the selection process.  There is 
also something we call Visually Cued Coded Access with generalizes this 
technique (see http://www.gok.ca/concepts.html).

In designing GOK we conceptually separated: Selection Technique, 
Grouping of keys, and Controlling Acts (user->hardware).

Feel free to email me directly with more detailed questions etc.  Maybe 
you could tell me more about pylisiere?  It is interesting that you use 
python, as we have an interest in using that language.

cheers,

David

rangzen wrote:

> Hello to all the list,
>
> first of all : thank you for your work !
>
> and second : sorry for my english :)
>
> I work on pylisiere https://gna.org/projects/pylisiere a virtual keyboard.
> When i start this program my first goal was to find a way to write for
> people who can only use a binary signal to communicate like people under
> Lock-in syndrom or who can only move a finger (up or down, mouvement or
> not) or control their breath (breath or not, in or out).
> For this, a virtual keyboard wich look like our keyboard with more than
> 100 keys is unusable, even with automatic advance in the key, it's too
> slow ...
>
> My works now looks like the ditionnary who help you to write on cell phone
> with predictive words and more than 1 letter per key. This "technlogy" is
> called T9 in cell phone. I show my works to an hospital on a livecd wich
> is very interested and propose me some tests with disabled people to test
> their use of the program.
>
> There is a group of letter by touch so you have to use a dictionnary to
> propose the words wich can match with.
> Example :
> Key 1 : eairs
> Key 2 : tnoc
> You press 1,1 and 2
> Wich word match with [eairs][eairs][tnoc] : set, sin, etc order by number
> of use or freq of use in your langage, etc.
> You can see a screenshot at http://home.gna.org/pylisiere/
>
> Pylisiere can be change to work with any group of key per boutton, with
> any number of button. My work is actually on building free (as freedom ;)
> ) dictionnary.
>
> pylisiere can only input text and the hospital tell me that people want go
> on internet, watch dvd, etc. So i continue my research and i found gok ...
> You have probably more than 2 years of advance on me :)
>
> I think that it's probably better to adapt my job to yours, so i want to
> know if you have allraedy some works in progress for a vk with group of
> letter and dictionnary ?
> Is it possible to adapt this idea to gok ?
> Did you have already try this ?
> Is it too big to change ?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
>