WordSticks

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  Working demo!!

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  Pretty lillies

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  Printing gates

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  Modding the controller

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  Theory development

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  AI Markov chain

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  Ring gates to restrict joystick input to their quadrants

Inspiration

Chorded input is underutilised especially for form-factors with so few buttons, such as game controllers and disability aids.

What it does

Uses a combination of two joysticks to produce ~64 unique keyboard inputs, dedicating certain pairs to common words, AI suggestions and frequent operations. Optional controller modifications are used with hardened joysticks that are more precise for lower motor abilities, all designed to easily apply to any controller and useable on any phone.

theory layout

How we built it

Runs in Unity to flexibly handle many devices and types of joystick input. With a lightweight AI predictive model for faster typing and training.

Challenges we ran into

Frontend direction, with work being focused on the backend engine running smoothly and functionally

Accomplishments that we're proud of

In-house machine learning model and chorded theory

What we learned

Unity development, predictive AI, chorded inputs

What's next for WordSticks

Integration with user systems

Built With

• c#
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• unity