SectionPage Future directions
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<h2>Future directions for the Dasher project</h2>
<p> The Dasher project is being taken forward by
 the <a href=/>Inference group</a> in the Cavendish laboratory;
  other researchers who share our aim of seeing Dasher
 widely used in the real world are also encouraged to work on Dasher.
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 The initial focus
 is the development of Dasher for disabled users;
  additional goals are the development of the palmtop version;
  the development of Japanese and Chinese versions; and the creation of
  specialized versions for particular  computers.
  In order to take all these goals forward, we have 
  released the Dasher source code as an Open Source project.
  Our Current core activities are  listed on the <a href='/dasher/websource/english/development'>development page</a>.
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  <h3>Other ideas include:</h3>


     <dl>
      <dt><a href='/dasher/development/breathing'>Controlling Dasher by Breath</a></dt>
	   <dd>Now done! Works with version 3</dd>
      <dt><a href='/dasher/development/breathing'>Controlling Dasher by Buttons</a></dt>
	   <dd>Now done! Should be released in version 4</dd>
      <dt><a href='/dasher/development/tilt'>Controlling Dasher by Tilt sensors</a></dt>
	   <dd>Should be very easy to do with version 3</dd>
      <dt><a href='/dasher/development/'>Linking  Dasher to the Owl, a very low-cost eyetracker</a></dt>
 <dd>
      </dd>
<dt> <a href='/dasher/websource/english/peano'><b>`Peano Dasher' and other  Fully Two-dimensional Dashers</b></a>
</dt>
<dd> capable of using both dimensions as information sources.
     <br> David MacKay and Piotr Zielinski
 
 </dd>
<dt> <b>basher</b> 
</dt>
<dd> a mouse-driven command-line interface;
 a one-handed, keyboardless alternative to tcsh, csh, bash, etc.
     <br>
     Unfortunately the name <b>dash</b> has recently been
     adopted for <a href=http://packages.debian.org/unstable/shells/dash.html>another shell in Debian,
     The Debian Almquist Shell</a>, so we are using the name <b>basher</b> for this concept.
     </dd>
 <br>
 </dd>
  <dt> <b>Xybernaut</b> </dt>
  <dd> The <a href=http://www.xybernaut.de/navi_englisch/home_e.html>Xybernaut</a>
   company have kindly
   provided  a wearable computer for us to test Dasher on.
</dd>
 <dt> <b>Linux eyetracker</b>
 </dt>
 <dd> Piotr Zielinski
 </dd>
 <dt> <a href='/dasher/development/calibration'><b>Self-tuning eyetracker</b></a>
 </dt>
 <dd> Phil Cowans and Piotr Zielinski
 </dd>
 <dt> <b>Improved language models</b>
 </dt>
 <dd> Phil Cowans
 </dd>

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<h3>Dreams for the future</h3>
<dl>
 <dt> <b>Hybrid voice-dasher system</b>
 </dt>
 <dd> Speak into an imperfect speech-recognizer, and watch as
 its inferences are displayed as predictions; wherever it is
 not sure what you said, use dasher to steer into the correct
 sentence. Much easier than having to correct errors by
 saying further speech-commands!
      <br>
      This system, <a href=http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/kv227/speechdasher/><b>Speech-Dasher</b></a>,
      is now working, thanks to <a href=http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/kv227/>Keith Vertanen</a>.
</dd>
 <dt> <b>Hybrid automatic translation-dasher system</b>
 </dt>
 <dd> Assume we have a poor translation system that translates
 badly from French to English. An expert has to zip through
 the translation and clean up errors.
 This cleaning-up could be done within Dasher, using
 the output of the translator to define a language model.
 </dd>
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