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by ad404b8a372f2b9 1210 days ago
God I hope someone implements a binary tree for these poor people, I can't imagine how frustrating it must be to type like that.
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There is a simpler device, a glass plate with the alphabet held between the patient and the other person. Humans are extraordinary good at following someone's glance, and this is how a quadriplegic patient can spell out words. Franz Rosenzweig used such a thing in his last years.

It's surprising that no one has used a camera plus ML whizzo stuff including predictive text to speed up the process.

Haha, for typical use with Synchron’s device they are using eye-tracking. The BCI-only mode is just for research purposes/baseline. It’s also just what’s in the paper, they may implement other UIs in practice.
> they may implement other UIs in practice

for the first time in my life I'm thinking "now here's something that should be called UX"