Labor, Discipline, Plans, Goals
Research
and development is the main activity of the MIE Ltd, anything other is done only
to strengthen the same. Its aim is to better the technologic conditions for the
mass application of the computing technology. These conditions are searched,
and there are developed new tools of the information technology and electronics
to satisfy them.
One
of the given technological conditions being improved is the man-machine
interface of the text input. Many new tools and methods are tried out, but in
spite of the hopes and needs the traditional typewriter keying remained ruling
up to now.
Our work is based on the expired patent
from 1987 of a one handed position-free
wearable input device intended primarily for text input - the World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) published it under No. 93/15476. This
is a menu selector mounted on the hand, called commercially "keyboard grown
on fingertips". There exists the algorithm that renders the whole
functionality of a traditional QWERTY keyboard and the mouse with that device.
It is accomplishable with the same functionality on touch-screen displays too.
Here it also possesses one of the advantages of the above device: the operation
of the hand with the stylus on the touch-screen shouldn't be followed by the
eye - similarly to the "keyboard grown on fingertips" -, as it should
be done with the solutions being now usual on touchscreen. The eye and so the attention concentrates continuously
on the figure shaping at the site of the text input. There it evokes and traces
the building-up selection of the sign put in. Therefore I name it
letter-builder writing or sign-selector writing.
Outcomes
of our work have been published at three academic conferences beyond the above
patent publication. Those and later messages of us are coming up at this www.mie.ehc.hu
internet home page. Recently we have been specifying development objectives for
Master and/or PhD dissertations to information-science universities in order to
prove four of our work-hypotheses. We could do the first steps of the
development with the programs made for the dissertations, and would provide evidence
for the marketing that with the new text input the user has more remaining
attention to redirect, makes less error, the process is quicker attainable and
less tiring. Until the first marketing we could do the remaining development
work with the financing of about 10 man-years of information technologists. We
are looking for financing partners to the same.
We
hire our software tools from MICROSOFT at fair price in the frame of
partnership arrangement offered to any business entity.
MIE
Ltd.
Dezső
Fodor executive manager