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Finding an Optimal Keyboard Layout For Swype

Posted by Soulskill on from the designed-for-2015 dept.

New submitter Analog24 writes: The QWERTY keyboard was not designed with modern touchscreen usage in mind, especially when it comes to swype texting. A recent study attempted to optimize the standard keyboard layout to minimize the number of swype errors. The result was a new layout that reduces the rate of swipe interpretation mistakes by 50.1% compared to the QWERTY keyboard.

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  1. Re:Keyboards are becoming obsolete by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You can text without one on a smartphone.

    And on the basis of that you think that keyboards are becoming obsolete? I can get everywhere I need to go on foot, but that doesn't mean my car is going to become obsolete.

    Keyboards will be around until something that's actually better comes along. Speech recognition certainly isn't it, no matter how good it gets.

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