What is SuperKeyÒ Light Data Entry System?

SuperKey is Starfish’s solution for those millions of users who are accustomed to using a mouse and/or keyboard/keypad form of input in Connected Information Devices. It is ideally suited to and designed for the new REX PRO credit card-sized device. SuperKey allows REX PRO to meet the most common data entry and editing requirements without compromising the size and efficiency of the REX.

SuperKey is not simply an input method. It is an integrated, revolutionary system of information entry and management.

SuperKey on REXÔ PRO

Because REX PRO is a Connected Information Device, users typically use a PC to enter and edit most of their information. For this purpose, they use desktop applications such as Sidekick, Outlook or TrueSync Desktop which accompanies REX PRO.

However, REX PRO provides users with the ability to add, edit, and modify data directly on the device using Starfish's revolutionary SuperKey^® Light Data Entry System.

Edit Key

A single key holds the secret to SuperKey's simple and effective power.

SuperKey consists of an integrated set of tools that interface directly with the applications on the REX PRO. The new REX PRO features one additional and essential key -- the "Edit Key." Pressing this key brings up a context sensitive pop-up menu, the gateway to SuperKey.

Context-sensitive menus always anticipate the user’s requirements.

As an example, if you are looking at the Calendar, pressing the Edit Key activates a context sensitive, pop-up menu that allows the user to create a new event. If you then select an existing event in the Calendar and press the Edit Key, you instantly get different in-context options: Reschedule or Cancel the event. Still other in-context options are presented in each application, and during different phases of the execution of a variety of tasks.

For the user, REX PRO’s unique context sensitivity means the ability to get the job done faster, with far less effort, and with no need to worry about methodology or input systems. It’s all anticipated by the SuperKey system.

In this way, the Edit Key is the central element to accessing the power of the SuperKey system. It functions intelligently to present users with appropriate choices as they perform different tasks on the REX PRO. Once a menu choice has been selected, the SuperKey system guides the user through the process of entering appropriate information step by step. Where text must be entered, SuperKey employs a simple two-key entry system.

SuperKey: A smart system that anticipates your needs

SuperKey doesn’t just understand the current context; it also remembers and anticipates. This is very important, because research shows that users tend to select titles for items such as tasks or meetings from a relatively small set of words and phrases. Typical titles include "Business Lunch," "Prepare Presentation," "Off-Site," and so forth. SuperKey intelligently manages QuickLists of words and phrases and offers them in context for fast and easy data entry. . SuperKey learns from the user as the user uses the device. The more a user employs the device, the more SuperKey will present that user with choices tailored to his or her working style, and the fewer new QuickList items the user will need to define and enter into the device.

SuperKey’s QuickLists automatically adjust to a user’s personal working style.

In context, SuperKey presents a QuickList of choices to the user -- choices which are modified on the fly by the SuperKey system and which can also be customized on REX PRO or on the PC.

SuperKey: Nothing to memorize -- simplicity and efficiency at work

SuperKey is a remarkably simple and efficient system, ideally suited for credit card-sized devices. With SuperKey, there is nothing that needs to be memorized. SuperKey is always just a key click away. Ready for action.

Conclusion: SuperKey -- Intelligent and optimized for credit card-sized devices and one-handed operations

With different form factors come different methods and expectations. It is unreasonable and counterproductive to expect a credit card-sized device to do everything our desktop PC does.

Starfish has developed the SuperKey Light Data Entry System specifically for credit card-sized devices such as the REX PRO. SuperKey is an integrated data input and user interaction system that learns and adapts to the user’s style over time. It is not just an input method, but an integrated system that learns from the user and anticipates the user’s needs. It is always one key click away. SuperKey was designed for one-handed operation and kept simple to appeal to the widest possible user base, while keeping the technology efficient and compact. In these ways, the SuperKey Light Data Entry System complements and increases the advantages of the credit card-sized REX PRO.

SuperKey intelligently learns from and anticipates the user's actions. As a user employs the device, SuperKey adapts to that user's personal styles and needs. The SuperKey system thus refines the user's choices, so that the process of entering and updating data becomes increasingly faster and easier.