[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia, coming to a pen near you.

[Carcharoth]

How about a pen that you can use to *edit* Wikipedia? No, wait, that
takes longer than typing doesn't it?

I'm waiting for the app that let's you edit Wikipedia just by
*thinking* (or indeed any application that you can use just by
thinking - some are sort of available already for paraplegics, but the
technology is still in its infancy).

http://www.technoscan.com/tracking.php?ID=15
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%E2%80%93computer_interface
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-computer_interaction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroprosthetics

None of those seem to cover eyeball movement technology.

This does, but not the application to paraplegics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_tracking

Here's an interesting page (and an interesting wiki site as well):

http://abilitynet.wetpaint.com/page/Eye+Pointing

The closest I could get to anything similar on Wikipedia was one line here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistive_technology

But I'm probably searching using the wrong terms.

Carcharoth

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Bob the Wikipedian
> <bobthewikipedian at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dot paper (while I'm not completely sure what it is) is apparently a
>> crucial element in utilizing the smartpen.
>
> From what I've heard, dot paper is paper with tiny dots that the
> digital pen can use to orient itself. The idea is you write stuff with
> the pen, and you can see what you've written (it's a normal pen), but
> you also create an electronic trace (thanks to the dots). Throw some
> OCR at that, and some storage, and it's pretty easy to do this
> Wikipedia app.
>
> Question is: why would this be useful? Seems a weird use case: waste
> dot paper writing the name of the article I want to look up, rather
> than just searching for it on my smartphone...
>
> Incidentally, as far back as 2001 I remember exchange students having
> pens that let you scan a printed word, and it would look up that text,
> and give you the definition. So it's not particularly cutting edge
> technology.
>
> Steve
>
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