[Xerte] Text Entry Hints

[Dave Burnett]

Glitch in the eval routine maybe?
In the second entry started to correctly type repair, but got hinted at "e".

I think it is a much more engaging way to handle it.
AFA the algorithm goes, I'd be tempted to throw it in the lap of a language development type. I'd figure there is some culturally dependent pattern of word formation/recognition that might come into play and have a set of rules.
e.g. Show consonants first? Vowels? Final letter?

Seeing this is multi-language, it would also be interesting to see if there were variations in the above between languages.

Reminds me of the "What do you see?" experiment where they took a painting of a bull and obscured it with paint spackle.
Very few north americans/europeans could identify it, but as they moved closer to the Mediterranean, the recognition rate started to rise.

But my favourite experiment is still Stanley Milgram's.


Subject: RE: [Xerte] Text Entry Hints
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:50:47 +0000
From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk



















You can see what I have so far at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~cczjrt/mediaInteractions/
- it’s on page two.

 

 





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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney

Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 9:29 AM

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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Text Entry Hints





 

Interesting problem: how to
generate the hints:

 

For example, the word is
‘interactive’, so generate successive hints like this:

 

_n___ac__v_

Int__act_v_

Int_ractiv_

 

Where successive hints become
more helpful, building on previous hints – or do we show a new random hint each
time, i.e.

 

_nt_ra_ti_e

I_t_r_ct_ve

In__ra__ive

 

So what are the rules?

 

-         
Need to wait for at least so many characters to be typed – fixed
or related to the length of the word – wait for more characters to be typed
before hinting longer words?

-         
Only show so many hints per word – but short words should get
less hints than long words;

-         
Only show a new hint once more characters were typed than the
last time we showed a hint – one more? Or several? Is this related to the
length of the word?

-         
Build the hint replacing characters in the answer at random with
underscores? Or always add n new helpful characters to the hint? Is n related
to the length of the word?

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Should the first character always be included in the hint?

 

Give it a whirl with a few
words of different lengths and you’ll see it isn’t so straightforward…

 





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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett

Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 5:24 PM

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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Text Entry Hints





 

>The handsets also have a
silly little game you can play  standalone that works like that.

Word-with-blanks. You type in a letter and it either fills it in or adds a
strike. 3 strikes, move on.



Hmm, wonder if there's a $1 appstore app hiding in there somewhere?

Do some gaming theory research and see if we can turn it into crack. 











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