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Adatype - Intelligent keyboard that follows your fingers

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By: Andrii Krot

    I decided to put the Video Pitch in the beginning of description to give a general overview right away, because a picture is worth a thousand words, and I have an entire video.

    Existing touch keyboards doesn't let you type as fast as you type with physical keyboards, because physical keyboards give you additional feedback (such as shape of keys and difference in feeling between striking a key and resting on home row keys) that touch panels cannot provide. But touch keyboards can get much more input from you than physical keyboards do: they know exactly where you touch a key. This information can be used to make touch keyboard to adapt to you.

    In other words, if you adjust position of your fingers according to physical keyboard, then touch keyboard should adjust its own position according to your fingers. That's exactly what Adatype does. It knows whether your fingers are resting or typing, and moves keyboard to your fingers if they are resting on home row keys. But even after you rise your fingers and start typing, the keyboard still follows your fingers, using machine learning to identify their position.

    Moreover, Adatype uses neural networks to accommodate your personal typing style. This allows you to transfer typing performance and typing experience from physical keyboards to tablets. In addition, Adatype can bring you typing performance beyond the limit defined by physical keyboards: you can use gestures without taking your hand away from the keyboard.

    First time I presented prototype of Adatype in 2014, and in the same year it won prizes at two international competitions. Since then I significantly improved it in compliance with extensive scientific research.

    Since Adatype is distributed as an tablet application, it can be easily scaled. The prototype on the video is running on and Android tablet, but it can be adapted to any of major platforms (iOS, Windows) in terms of weeks.

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