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Adaptive Disambiguation
Justin Hall for TheFeature.com has written a thoughtful article on the future of predictive texting and the differences between the technologies offered. Tegic's T9 (which stands for Text on Nine Keys), where the sequence of what you type is compared to possible letter combinations in a built-in dictionary, airtx which offers "solutions that read your mind" and Eatoni Ergonomics who's software doesn't predict entire words, but letters. Excerpts "The struggle to predict the next word in mobile text messages foreshadows a larger struggle to shape communications and rewire our minds. A peek into the future of text prediction immediately conjures ever-closer computer-human cooperation, collaborative thinking between people and their devices. The aim is always to reduce that stutter and make fast texting seamless". What I love best are Justin's last words: "What do we stand to lose and gain when we rely on machine to help us express ourselves? Perhaps our frustration with misplaced words will be replaced with more profound frustration at being led in the wrong direction by software purporting to read our minds. There's likely to be an ever greater struggle as we compose more text on our phones, not just to plan a date with a friend, but also to share with the world the subtlety of our experience as we hurtle down the road. And in a related post on mobitopia Matt Croydon cries out his frustration of having to type long URLs without the assistance of T9 or other forms of predictive text in his mobile phone. His suggestion, a top-level domain (TLD) aimed at mobile use. The obvious choise being .m. |
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