11:15 Autocorrect and Autocomplete by Traci Gardner

Constraints

tengrrl — 2015-02-22 05:16:36 UTC

How do autocorrect and autocomplete limit your ability to do things you want to do? What do they make difficult for you? Think about which features of autocorrect and autocomplete are intuitive and which features are “hidden” or only available to advanced users. What shortcomings are there to autocorrect and autocomplete?

Affordances

tengrrl — 2015-02-22 05:16:36 UTC

What do autocorrect and autocomplete allow or encourage you to do? What does they make easy for you?

ease of typing

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I still don't know how to spell a lot of words now

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give you suggestions

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type quickly

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communicate effectively

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discourages you from cursing - usually makes bad words into "good" words

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helps your spelling

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faster typing

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allow you to use slang

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Can make spelling unusual words even more difficult.

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miscommunicate messages

just hit keys in the general area

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learn new words

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correct drunken mistakes

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doesn't let you type what you want

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May help expand vocabulary

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send the wrong message to someone

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butchers people's names when they're not the norm

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sometimes it learns the incorrect spelling of a word so you misspell it every time

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Makes you have to double check messages sometimes even though it should be helping you

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takes longer to type

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Doesn't help you learn to catch your own mistakes

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autocorrects to the wrong word

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can slow you down trying to fix everything

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most people don't know how to fix the settings so it only autocorrects certain abbreviations

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capitalizes words that aren't meant to be screamed

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insists it know what words you're trying to say and will

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not let you type what you want

Can get used to the way you misspell words

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takes longer to type things

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encourages multimedia text

sometimes abbreviations don't work, so instead of saving time with "btw" you have to go back and make sure it's correct

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helps you make the same mistake again and again

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It learns your commonly used words and then works to suggest those more often

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more professional

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when using voice messaging Siri can spell the words for you correctly - if I dont

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know how to spell a difficult word sometimes I use Siri

Trys to recognize what you're trying to

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less arthritis

learns your most common abbreviations or purposefully misspelled words and won't try tocorrect them anymore

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can make things complicated

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makes you lazy

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safer