Autocorrect cracks me up but I know one day it’s going to come back and bite me in the butt. I text my 13-year-old sister in a completely different way than I text my grandparents or Bible study leader or supervisor at work, but autocorrect doesn’t realize that and it’s led to a couple funny […]
affordances, autocorrect, constraints, funny, Interrogate an Interface, P3, Project 3, texting
Auto-correct Fail
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I’ve encountered many auto-correct problems since 2006 when I had T-9 text to the auto-correct of Blackberry and the iPhone 5 & 6. While it makes texting easier, auto-correct can have some downfalls. For example, now that smartphones are very prominent in society today, many people are using auto-correct and auto-complete based on the app […]
Interrogate an Interface
Feb 23
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One of the most memorable autocorrect situations I’ve had came very recently. I was trying to text one of my friends and tell them when I was coming down to visit them (pretty important). I tried to say that my plane was going to land on monday, and for whatever reason, autocorrect thought I was […]
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Feb. 23 – Autocorrect
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Last semester, my friends and I set up a reservation for hibachi at Turner’s Place. For a reservation of 10 people, this takes a lot of coordination to determine an appropriate time for 10 people to be available. For some…
Classwork
Experience With Autocorrect
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I can’t really think of a specific time that autocorrect has completely ruined my life by replacing what I had typed with the wrong thing, but I have had my name autocorrected in texts from other people before. Usually, if someone is trying to type my name it will come up as “brain,” not “Brian.” […]
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Autocomplete
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My experiences with autocomplete have been generally good. I have been using autocomplete on smart devices since 2007 and to be frank, it has been quite a roller coaster of a ride. Initially, google had a generic autocorrect that would correct words and every time you wanted a ‘replacement’ word instead of it (ex: they […]