Detecting “cat-like” typing.
2006-09-27 20:51:06 +0000 personal
There is a program called PawSense for Windows which detects “cat-like” typing, and then prevents further keyboard entry.
I found some code for filtering keyboard events on Mac OS X, and I wanted to implement something similar. But this raises an interesting question: just what characterizes “cat-like” typing?
The PawSense website suggested that cat paws are very broad, and usually strike nearby keys simultaneously. Another idea is to detect “human-like” typing and then freeze the keyboard whenever non-human typing is detected (which has the useful feature of detecting a future version of cat with smaller paws).