While we are working to make mobile input technology more user-friendly, we are always amazed at the other advances taking place in this cutting edge field. We encourage you to examine some of the wonderful developments that help will make mobile technology ubiquitous in the twenty-first century. Please enjoy the following links to companies making these advances.
HP Labs is working on a way to produce low cost, thin, light and attractive displays that may advance e-book technology in the future. Image your child going to school in the future without the back-breaking load of books they now carry, all replaced with one lite portable computer.
http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2004/oct_dec/bistable_display.html
Text messaging combined with video games opens new opportunities for on-line connectivity and text based gaming. At Penn State it was the topic of discussion for the “Play to Win” conference and one person in attendance really liked what he heard. He breaks it down on his blog at . the-textbox-360
Want to learn more about “Human-Computer Interaction”? Here is a resource of information that combines years of research including links to conference proceedings and companies involved in this field. Some of the links may have expired but there is still a vast amount of information to be found here.
http://www.interface-analysis.com/ergoworld/hci.htm
How about more information on chord keyboards? Several have come and gone but a look at what was good and what has failed could lead to the success of this style of input for mobile technology. Again, some links have failed, much like some of the devices, yet some of the jumps will lead you to see how wearable computing has helped shape many of these devices.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord_keyboard