RE: Re: [Project] Kbd/LCD device

["Graham Howe" <graham@xxxxxxx>]

Why not get the keypad to work like the DDAR remote control. With that each
number is three or four letters (like a phone) then once one is pressed it
narrows the selection down to tracks (or titles or artists or playlists)
beginning with those three (or four letters) then narrows it down further
with the subsequent presses. Using this technique I have not had to press
more than about 3 or 4 buttons to get any one track out of a current
library
of about 3000.

Graham

> -----Original Message-----
> From: patrickl@xxxxxxx [mailto:patrickl@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 29 May 2001 13:27
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: [Project] Kbd/LCD device
>
>
> --- In ukha_d@y..., Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@s...> wrote:
> > > > Are there are similar designs we can look at?  Things
like Next,
> > > > Previous, Enter, Cancel spring to mind.
> > >
> > > Just a thought ...a lot of the use is going to be AV
Control(esp.
> MP3
> > > selection). One of the more advanced fuctions we could
consider
> would be
> > > the use of a telephone style keypad with 2 abc 3 def etc.
> > >
> > > This would allow predictive selection of menus and even
entering
> of text
> > > for the real masochists.
> > >
> >
> > I suggested this the other day, but using some logic similar to
the
> new Nokia
> > & Motorola mobile phones.
> >
> > You just press the button once to type the message, and the
likely
> words are
> > displayed for you to choose. It is suprisingly accurate and must
> work on some
> > kind of logic, because it gets words that aren't in a dictionary.
>
> I think it works using statistical probability for letter pairs &
> triplets.
>
> My in-car Sat Nav system uses rotary selection of letters (dial the
> letter you want), eliminating letters which are not relevant as the
> choice is narrowed down. This works surprisingly well, despite the
> cumbersome description!
>
> In addition to differentiating direction of travel, rotary selection
> can also react to speed of rotation. With a bit of ingenuity, it's
> possible to design UI's which are (IMO...) far more elegant and
> intuitive than a push button interface - not only that, but it's
> economic on the input bits too.
>
> If we are going to have push button inputs, aligning them parallel to
> screen edge will also give the option of a "soft key" style
UI,
> without compromising cursor-style navigation.
>
>
> Patrick
>
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