Short Circuit's Journal: Need Help Finding Communications Tool

A while back, I saw mention on Slashdot (either in an article or in a comment) of an open source application that allowed people with speech problems to use a mouse to build words and sentences. But for the life od me, I can't remember what the name of it was.

IIRC, this is how it worked: From the screenshots, looked like it displayed a bunch of possibilities of what the person might be trying to say. Different possibilities appeared and changed size depending on how you moved the mouse.

The reason I ask is that my cousin recently suffered brain damage, but his cognitive abilities don't appear to have been destroyed. For instance, he currently can strategize very well at Uno, but trying to communicate with a laptop keyboard is promising, but not effective.

Anyway, can anyone who reads this help me find it, and post their results here? If you could drop the question in your journals or blogs, that'd be great. (Great...a new journal meme. :)

Well... There's this.

[pythorlh]

http://www.exideas.com/ME/index.html [exideas.com]

That's not what I remember, though. I remember an applet that had letters on the right hand side, and you selected them with the mouse. As you selected letters, the most common combinations came up in the middle, and rare ones were pushed to the edge. I can't seem to find that, but the link above looks similar.

Re:Well... There's this.

[Short Circuit]

What you describe is what I meant. It's been a long time since I saw it mentioned, though.

Dasher?

[Aumaden]

I found a reference to Dasher [cam.ac.uk] in this [slashdot.org] article. Hope that helps

Re:Dasher?

[Short Circuit]

That's exactly it! Thanks a bunch. I passed the word along.

yo

[open_minded_2002]

are u going to be nice to me now? u pride yourself at being the highest function ausbergers in the west mi please stop hurting feelings, i care about u, u should of read my thing by now