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Valerie Sutton Date: Wed Aug 15, 2001 7:31 pm Subject: SW Touch Screen Keypad | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tony McCloskey wrote: >>I see that Richard has a program designer that calls pre designed >>signs from a database is that a very quick system would it be quick >>enough to carry out a conversation if someone was typing fast? SignWriting List August 15, 2001 I thought I would share this question and answer with the SW List, Tony. Richard Gleaves and I worked together from 1985-1995. At that time, computers were not as fast, or as readily available. Before that time, we wrote SignWriting by hand. We were publishing volumes by writing with ink pens...all by hand. So from our point of view, the typing system that Richard and I developed was a major improvement over writing by hand. And it can be intuitive to type with SignWriter 4.4...IF...a person has training in how to type quickly. But most people are slow when typing with SignWriter, because they do not have the training... Therefore, having a full dictionary of pre-typed signs and words has value for people. And, yes, it can be fast...but I guess this all depends on how you design your software, Tony...Placing whole words or whole signs into a sentence is not the way we type English either...so it would be a different feeling to place whole words pre-typed into sentences... We have never tried to type with a device hanging around our necks before either - ha! That doesn't mean I am not positive about the idea - I think it is well worth the try, if you are game... -- Val ;-> ----------------------------- Valerie Sutton ....visit the... SignWritingSite https://www.SignWriting.org Read & Write Sign Languages SignBankSite https://www.SignBank.org Sign Language Dictionaries DanceWritingSite https://www.DanceWriting.org Read & Write Dance MovementWritingSite https://www.MovementWriting.org Read & Write All Movement Deaf Action Committee for SignWriting Center For Sutton Movement Writing an educational nonprofit organization Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA phone: 858-456-0098....fax: 858-456-0020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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