Comment Re:...how about making a keyboard without ...keys (Score 1) 64
Such a device (virtual keyboard using a data glove) would need some sort of feedback for the user, either visual or haptic (touch).
A standard keyboard gives multiple kinds of haptic feedback, both the up/down response (spring) when you click it, and the information about alignment (you can feel it when you don't hit the key in its center).
[Imaging touch typing without a sense of touch.]
Visual feedback (say from display goggles) would kinda defeat the purpose (touch typing).
Some "data gloves" do give force feedback, but they are very expensive
Without feedback there would be no way to keep your hands aligned to the virtual keys. The computer could use some sort of algorithm that continuously repositioned the "keyboard" based upon contexual information about what you type, but that is probably too complex. [Of course if would go nuts if you typed stuff like fsck -F ufs ...]
A standard keyboard gives multiple kinds of haptic feedback, both the up/down response (spring) when you click it, and the information about alignment (you can feel it when you don't hit the key in its center).
[Imaging touch typing without a sense of touch.]
Visual feedback (say from display goggles) would kinda defeat the purpose (touch typing).
Some "data gloves" do give force feedback, but they are very expensive
Without feedback there would be no way to keep your hands aligned to the virtual keys. The computer could use some sort of algorithm that continuously repositioned the "keyboard" based upon contexual information about what you type, but that is probably too complex. [Of course if would go nuts if you typed stuff like fsck -F ufs
