Dasher Developments

Dasher/Owl
Automatic pointing calibration
Controlling Dasher by Breath or Buttons
Controlling Dasher by Tilt or Twist

Driving Dasher with Tilt Sensors

Dasher on ipaq tilt gives one-handed Dasher

The one-dimensional version of Dasher requires the user to control only one degree of freedom. This single dimension could be easily conveyed by wrist-rotation and picked up by a tilt sensor in a palmtop computer. This would allow the user to put away the stylus and write one-handed. Information about tilt sensors.

November 2005: We now have tilt-dasher working in a Toshiba tablet PC.


gummi (c) Sony Interaction Lab

Driving Dasher by Twisting

Talk about a hardware idea crying out for Dasher! The Gummi from Sony is a bendable PDA with no obvious way of entering text. The 'twist' dimension could be used to steer Dasher, and other degrees of freedom in the device could be used to stop/start/etc.


Dasher home page tilt
David MacKay
Last modified: Tue Jan 24 19:10:47 2006