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Accessibility in Linux systems

Posted Oct 9, 2008 22:56 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Accessibility in Linux systems by socket
Parent article: Accessibility in Linux systems

OK, that keyboard is dramatically weirder than my Maltron.

(Regarding the key rearrangement: you might want to do as the Maltron
folks did and treat it as a large-search-space problem searching for
minimum finger motion across a large corpus of representative input: both
GP and simulated annealing seem likely to find something reasonably good.)

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Posted Oct 9, 2008 23:06 UTC (Thu) by socket (guest, #43) [Link]

Yes, that was my plan. I'm working on code for a GP approach, similar to what has been tried for traditional keyboards. The approach is similar: I've collected letter bigram frequencies from text I've written (which I already use for training Dasher,) and I need to talk to someone in the nearby university's physiology department to get some help building a metric for the work involved in different arm movements.

Accessibility in Linux systems

Posted Oct 16, 2008 13:57 UTC (Thu) by nocomment (guest, #33767) [Link]

In the US Kinesis keyboards are similar and (somewhat) easier to find. See

http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/

Accessibility in Linux systems

Posted Oct 17, 2008 19:53 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Indeed. I went for a Maltron mainly because they last (much) longer than
Kinesis keyboards do.