New keyboard for touch screen

German experts have created a new keyboard called KALQ, which allows the index finger to glide rapidly across touch screen devices.

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The team at the Max Planck Institute for Information Sciences says the new keyboard has been successfully designed thanks to the programming of computer-related techniques for finger-pointing.

Keyboard KALQ - (Photo: Max Planck Institute)

The goal of the above approach is to define the optimal keyboard design for the operation of the index finger on the touch screen.

The layout of the traditional QWERTY keyboard is completely unsuitable for tablets and touch-screen devices when it comes to typing with the thumb, and the two-finger typing algorithm is very different from typing. on the physical keyboard.

The average typing speed on the QWERTY keyboard at the touch device is about 20 words per minute, slower than typing on a physical keyboard.

With the KALQ keyboard design, all vowels, except y, are placed in the area of the right index finger, while the left index finger is assigned more keys.

The results show that after only a short time practicing on KALQ, users can speed up the typing speed 34% faster than the design of the QWERTY keyboard.