http://mitcho.com/blog/projects/user-aided-disambiguation-a-demo/ Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:04:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-alpha-19719 http://mitcho.com/blog/projects/user-aided-disambiguation-a-demo/comment-page-1/#comment-2047 Research writing Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:18:20 +0000 http://mitcho.com/blog/?p=1572#comment-2047 <p>The inspiration for this idea came from Aza’s blog post “Solving the ‘it’ problem” which advocates for this type of quick feedback to the user in cases of ambiguity. It is true, I have just read this article.</p> The inspiration for this idea came from Aza’s blog post “Solving the ‘it’ problem” which advocates for this type of quick feedback to the user in cases of ambiguity. It is true, I have just read this article.

]]> http://mitcho.com/blog/projects/user-aided-disambiguation-a-demo/comment-page-1/#comment-917 Windows 7 Photo App Demo - Microsoft Windows 7 Preview | MS Win 7 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:23:50 +0000 http://mitcho.com/blog/?p=1572#comment-917 <p>[...] User-Aided Disambiguation: a demo [...]</p> […] User-Aided Disambiguation: a demo […]

]]> http://mitcho.com/blog/projects/user-aided-disambiguation-a-demo/comment-page-1/#comment-915 A_Flama Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:59:00 +0000 http://mitcho.com/blog/?p=1572#comment-915 <p>Very nice! Keep the good work :)</p> Very nice! Keep the good work

]]> http://mitcho.com/blog/projects/user-aided-disambiguation-a-demo/comment-page-1/#comment-891 mitcho Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:16:00 +0000 http://mitcho.com/blog/?p=1572#comment-891 <p>Ah, yes, I left some debug code in there. :) I just cleared that up right now. As for the second point—that's interesting. Perhaps we can allow escaping even after some whitespace has been entered... ?</p> Ah, yes, I left some debug code in there. I just cleared that up right now. As for the second point—that's interesting. Perhaps we can allow escaping even after some whitespace has been entered… ?

]]> http://mitcho.com/blog/projects/user-aided-disambiguation-a-demo/comment-page-1/#comment-889 Blair McBride Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:01:23 +0000 http://mitcho.com/blog/?p=1572#comment-889 <p>Impressive work! A few thoughts:</p> <ul> <li>Its broken if Firebug isn't installed & enabled, due to unconditional use of window.console </li> <li>I get caught up trying to hit escape <em>after</em> pressing space, after having typed in a delimiter </li> </ul> Impressive work! A few thoughts:

• Its broken if Firebug isn't installed & enabled, due to unconditional use of window.console
• I get caught up trying to hit escape after pressing space, after having typed in a delimiter

]]> http://mitcho.com/blog/projects/user-aided-disambiguation-a-demo/comment-page-1/#comment-874 mitcho Sat, 14 Mar 2009 06:13:33 +0000 http://mitcho.com/blog/?p=1572#comment-874 <p>Known issues: - the "adjust input widths" algorithm needs some help... perhaps there is a much better approach. - it will pick out particles from "unconverted" Japanese text with a Japanese IME (before the user has made a selection). This could be fixed if there was a way via JavaScript to check whether the user is currently typing in an IME context or not. - does not wrap or extend horizontally well</p> Known issues: - the "adjust input widths" algorithm needs some help… perhaps there is a much better approach. - it will pick out particles from "unconverted" Japanese text with a Japanese IME (before the user has made a selection). This could be fixed if there was a way via JavaScript to check whether the user is currently typing in an IME context or not. - does not wrap or extend horizontally well

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