Eyes-Free Touchscreen Dialing from Google

This directional-stroke dialer is part of a project to make Android interfaces that are accessible to blind users. The basic idea is that wherever you touch first is '5', and you stroke up to dial '2', etc.

Link: Announcing Eyes-Free Shell for Android (Google Open Source blog).

There's more, including a video, at Engadget (where the above picture is from).

This kind of swipe interface is similar to a text entry technology called JetKeys, developed by an Israeli company, JetWay Technologies. The idea of JetKeys is to use a numeric keypad for text entry by associating letters with directions on the keys, so instead of tapping the keys you swipe over them in one of four directions.

(picture captured from JetWay Technologies site)

Comments

[iml]

what a niffty gadget, this is really helpful specially for the blind.