Android ShapeWriter WritingPad

Back




Android WritingPad ShapeWriter is an innovative, original, fun, and highly efficient method of entering text into touch screen mobile phones. ShapeWriter lets the user to simply draw a continuous stroke from letter to letter on a soft keyboard and lift to complete the word. The resulting trace is recognized as the intended word. For example: to write the word "fun", land the pen (or mouse cursor) on the F key, drag to the U key, continue to the N key and lift up the pen. ShapeWriter recognizes the curso trace F-U-N as the word "fun".

Channel: Science & Technology
Uploaded: April 15, 2008 at 12:29 am
Author: ShapeWriterInc

Length: 0:07:59
Rating: 4.67
Views: 44,499

Tags: Android developer challenge OHA SDK touch screen mobile phones text gadget electronics user interface

Video Thumbnail #1:




Video Thumbnail #2:




Video Thumbnail #3:




Video Url:


Embed Code:


Video Comments:
zcollvee (Monday 27th of October 2008 01:55:30 AM)
reminds me of swype
Generalvaldez (Wednesday 6th of August 2008 08:15:50 AM)
awsomely cool
mrffff (Tuesday 5th of August 2008 10:46:27 AM)
definiately the future input deveice for me...especially the ergonomic ATOMIK keyboard
retroneo (Tuesday 22nd of July 2008 06:41:29 AM)
It's on iPhone and it's amazing! Look in the app store for "writingpad"
willpowerart (Tuesday 3rd of June 2008 01:31:15 AM)
tosco! quem 'digita' assim?
taftsshorts (Monday 2nd of June 2008 12:47:36 AM)
In longer words, like "accidentally", the red cursor line starts to get so long it begins to cover the letters of the onscreen keyboard. Could you make the line eventually fade to some low opacity as it's being drawn to prevent that?
ShapeWriterInc (Tuesday 3rd of June 2008 12:08:53 PM)
Yes, we have done that in the past and fading the tracing is indeed better. There was a bit performance concern on Android simulator, but we will try again. Thanks. This problem is particularly pronounced for the classic QWERTY layout. For optimized layout (ATOMIK, which will be an option in the next version), there will be a lot fewer zig-zag long traces.
romm72 (Friday 16th of May 2008 01:10:24 AM)
old concept.. but nice!
twoforty (Wednesday 14th of May 2008 08:49:25 PM)
nice!
mijmijrm (Wednesday 14th of May 2008 12:34:39 PM)
very nice .. but no use unless it becomes available to the public. ... i've been waiting for a download ever since the rough ibm SHARK was abandoned. (I assume the Shapewriter is an evolution of the SHARK.)