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Subject: RE: human failings question
From: Wall, Kevin (Kevin.Wallqwest.com)
Date: Thu Oct 05 2000 - 09:57:25 CDT

Rich Salz writes...

> There was a really bizarre program, "rk -- the reactive
> keyboard", from the early 1990's, that did prediction
> of general user typing. It didn't work too well for
> emacs, but it was some kind of wonder to behold when
> it started completing your shell commands for you.
> A quick search (via google) shows that it's still around.
>
> Anyhow, you might look at some of the papers associated with rk for
> measurement and analysis ideas.

To save anyone the trouble who might be interested from looking it up,
this seems to be the official site for rk:

        ftp://ftp.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/pub/Redirect/rk/

There is source code there, as well as description of how to
order research papers and also a book on it...

        "The Reactive Keyboard," by John J. Darragh and
        Ian H. Witten, Cambridge series on human-computer interaction,
        Cambridge University Press, New York, N.Y. 1992 (ISBN
0-521-40375-8).

Enjoy!
-kevin 

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