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Dasher: Writing text really fast without typing or speaking (inventability.net)
32 points by chuckus 3467 days ago
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This would be awesome for people who are disabled. Voice input is still a pain and only works with a limited number of applications. If you could somehow switch between keyboard and tracking for the mouse pointer, this could give full use of a computer to many people.
Dasher was developed largely with disabled people in mind. Have a look at the various human interface devices you can dash with:

https://help.gnome.org/users/dasher/unstable/specialneeds.ht...

http://www.inference.eng.cam.ac.uk/mackay/abstracts/OneButto...

The android keyboard version of Dasher is available in the F-droid repo: https://f-droid.org/app/dasher.android
This is really awesome. It looks hard, but it isn't. Here's a talk from 2007 that explains it well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpOxbesRNBc
Wow, this looks really cool. Looks like something you could do while exercising, like with a stationary bike or treadmill.
Appears to be really hard to pull off. How many hours of training does a person need to achieve let's say 20wpm?
People seem to pick up Dasher pick up pretty quickly http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/users.html and the demo makes it seem much easier than it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpOxbesRNBc
actually I tried it some years ago and it didn't seem worthwhile to pursue for me, but then I have a pretty high typing speed already.