News T9 creator unveils gesture-based input

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/09/11/t9-creator-unveils-gesture-based-input/1

Cliff Kushler, inventor of the T9 predictive text entry system for mobile 'phones, has unveiled a new system for touch screen devices, based on swiping gestures.

 

T9 is great for me.... i can remember bashing away at the buttons on my old nokia 3310, when you actual had to type every letter. lol! those were the days

 

Cant stand the T9 system, its the first thing I turn off when I get a new phone. Im faster just typing the word in anyways

 

Really? My 3310 had T9 dictionary. The older 3210 also had ( I think that was the first one to have T9 actually). My old Ericsson didn't though.

But maybe this will make onscreen texting easier, which would be pretty cool.

 

T9 sucks, it always manages to present me the totaly wrong words. If it would be a 'mind reader' plugin then that would have been amazing

 

I'm a fan of T9, but not on my LG KF600 - horrible, horrible phone.

 

i like the T9 system, is very easy for me, and you just hit the * key a couple of times to get to the word you want. granted, some phones do this poorly, eg. my old phone if you changed the combination halfway through typing a word it had no effect, my n91 smartly keeps the combination i've selected and continues matching from there. also, being able to add words to the dictionary is great too.
Swype looks interesting and clever, its a good idea imo, though final judgement will wait till i have a chance to play with it

 

I really don't understand how people don't get on with T9, I think they are just resistant to change and stuck in their ways.

It took me about a day to get used to it about 7 years ago using my ancient nokia 3310 and I've never looked back

 

I have my very own "Doug-speak" for sending text messages, T9 couldn't work it out, I doubt Swyck will...

 

I'm sure I saw a thing on this years ago. Maybe he's been working on it for a long time...

Nope this T9 bloke just stole it and it's at least 2-3 years old.. it's called shapewriter. http://www.almaden.ibm.com/u/zhai/shapewriter_research.htm IBM thing from the look of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtlyuuYmFN0.
And it's on Android already. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBOyGp25sSg

Is this the same thing but rebranded? Googling doesn't seem to come up with any clues.

 

Sounds good. I'd be interested to see this working.

And unlike T9, it should be easy to switch between Swype and tapping out a word on the fly. There would be no need to press a button to cycle ABC/Abc/abc/123/T9 like on some phones. Instead, you just swype away and, when you need to type e.g. an URL, just tap it out.

 

T9 sucks. I don't want my phone to tell me what I need to say, I tell my phone what I want to say! It never gets the right words and I always ended up frustrated with the thing. I always turn it off as soon as I get a new phone. What I don't get is people can like it. It's waaaaay too inconvenient.

 

If it actually could predict what i wanted to say? fine i'll have it, t9 is usually way off for me so I don't bother with it.

 

The T9 on my C902 is awesome, it predicts words pretty much spot on. It guessed them based on how Ive typed them before and on what the word preceding that im typing is.

Gesture based seems interesting.

 

I've never understood people who are against T9 - I find most of the time it's perfectly fine. But then, I choose to speak ENGLISH in my text messages, and not the cursed TXTSPK that is turning a generation into illiterate cretins

 

T9's pretty good, but there have been some failures to it that you don't always notice; last week I invited people round to play roles

(poker)

That and you have to spend the first month of a new phone programming in profanities.

 

T9 works a charm.
But then again.
If you can't spell T9 is a curse.
I'll want this for my Diamond if it becomes available. Touch wins. Unless you are trying to text while driving. No tactile feedback.

 

Well, at the moment there are no downloads, while there is a keyboard called SlideIT working on the same idea and free demos can be downloaded at:

http://dasur.co.il/Download.php

I just tried it! Truly innovative text input method!