Hello Thad, I recently buy one, and was dreaming about something like that! Wearable software of the year ? :) a great idea and work! Thanx ! Friday, September 2, 2005, 2:30:23 AM, you wrote: TES> Folks- My students have completed their work on the Twiddler keyboard TES> evaluations and have made a Twiddler tutor (Twidor) to get people up TES> to speed quickly. This tutor really has a lot of thought put into it TES> and its concepts have proven to be pretty successful (see the papers TES> linked from the web site). Hmm...we should probably still shoot a TES> quick video showing how to (and not to) hold the Twiddler. Hope TES> people find the Twidor useful! TES> Thad TES> -------- TES> Howdy! TES> Twidor, the Twiddler Tutor has finally arrived for public consumption. TES> Details can be found here: TES> http://www.cc.gatech.edu/ccg/projects/twidor/ TES> It's a simple java program that displays the twiddler in one section of TES> the screen and highlights keypresses to aid the user in finding what TES> combination to press next. TES> - Multi-character chords are enabled by default, and the default keymap TES> is that of the Twiddler 2. TES> - There is support for overriding the default keymap, lesson plan, and TES> lessons (examples on the webpage). TES> - Measures speed in WPM, and average error rate based on minimum string TES> distance and fixes (Soukeroff and Mackenzie's latest method). TES> - Experimentation has shown that it can take a novice from 0-20 wpm in TES> about 2 weeks of practice (at about 20 minutes a day). Expert TES> rates of over 60 wpm! TES> I suppose I have to field questions and comments on it, since I am the TES> author and maintainer. So! Fire away. Bugs, problems, etc. TES> () TES> Enjoy TES> ~Gibby -- Best regards, leboa mailto:
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